Vista - Help! My laptop can't restart or shutdown!

My thinkpad t60p was running vista for a couple of months. Yesterday, after I
installed a few updates, and tried to restart the machine, the system went to
a black screen and beep a few times, and then stopped there (the fan is still
running). I have to press the power button 5 seconds to shut it down. After
starting it again, I tried to shutdown directly, it failed as before. Since I
seldom reboot the system (always go to sleep mode), I don't know when the
problem happened.
Anyone can help me on the problem?

Thanks.

Hi,

Have you tried using System Restore to restore the computer back to a date
before the issue first occurred ???
If it works, then there is an issue with the update that was installed.


"yang" <yang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93820132-A319-4598-8144-309476DF962D@microsoft.com...
> My thinkpad t60p was running vista for a couple of months. Yesterday,
> after I
> installed a few updates, and tried to restart the machine, the system went
> to
> a black screen and beep a few times, and then stopped there (the fan is
> still
> running). I have to press the power button 5 seconds to shut it down.
> After
> starting it again, I tried to shutdown directly, it failed as before.
> Since I
> seldom reboot the system (always go to sleep mode), I don't know when the
> problem happened.
> Anyone can help me on the problem?
>
> Thanks.

"yang" <yang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93820132-A319-4598-8144-309476DF962D@microsoft.com...
> My thinkpad t60p was running vista for a couple of months. Yesterday,
> after I
> installed a few updates, and tried to restart the machine, the system went
> to
> a black screen and beep a few times, and then stopped there (the fan is
> still
> running). I have to press the power button 5 seconds to shut it down.
> After
> starting it again, I tried to shutdown directly, it failed as before.
> Since I
> seldom reboot the system (always go to sleep mode), I don't know when the
> problem happened.
> Anyone can help me on the problem?
>
> Thanks.

The beep codes hold the key to your problem, Google for "beep
codes" or visit the manufactures web site, they may have info there
for you.

rgds
Roberto

"yang" wrote
> My thinkpad t60p was running vista for a couple of months. Yesterday,
> after I
> installed a few updates, and tried to restart the machine, the system went
> to
> a black screen and beep a few times, and then stopped there (the fan is
> still
> running). I have to press the power button 5 seconds to shut it down.
> After
> starting it again, I tried to shutdown directly, it failed as before.
> Since I
> seldom reboot the system (always go to sleep mode), I don't know when the
> problem happened.
> Anyone can help me on the problem?

Sounds like a hardware problem, not an OS issue.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]