Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Wont boot up, bios wont either now what

Status
Not open for further replies.

outhere

IS-IT--Management
Jul 29, 2001
116
CA
Hi,
At question is an IBM Thinkpad 390. At boot up, freezes up on black IBM/Thinkpad logo which "used" to give me the choice to enter the bios by pressing f1. Now system halts. Not even with a startup disk, doesnt even scan disk...
One of two things could have happenend here, I was fooling around with the logo.sys or similar file extention found in the windows directory that has to do with bootable startup screen images. I renamed it to logo.sys.old then before I had a chance to place the new one in there I started doing something else and my PC crashed...Therefore hence my current situation...what should i do?
Oh ya the second thing i was refering to...this same day i spilled a few drops of coffee near my ESC key and might have shorted something out...
Please help need this to work this week!!
Steve
 
If the system is not moving past the initial BIOS prompt, then the problem is probably with the motherboard, not any file on the hard drive.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top