RoShamBo

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When I turn my IBM Thinkpad on, I get a black screen with then message "A disc read error has occured. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
When you do, you get the same message.

Any ideas ?

R.

CaptainJohn

Go into the BIOS and see if the HD is still recognized it may well be dead.

RoShamBo

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How do I do that mate ?
On start-up it shows the "IBM Thinkpad" logo then goes straight to black screen with the test on it, can I interrupt that?

R.

jpor

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You havn't left a floppy disc in the floppy disc drive?

aqua

the following website contains a very good listing of the key combinations required to access most computer BIOS.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

Foot_Tapper

F1 to get into thinkpad BIOS

RoShamBo

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Nope no floppy drive on the laptop.

RoShamBo

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Just gone into the BIOS, what should I be looking for? There is :

Config
Date/Time
Password
Startup
Restart

All with sub-menus. Had a look around & all seems OK - but not really sure what to be looking for - any advice ?

R

RoShamBo

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Hiya

Anyone any suggestions before I go hand over £££ for someone to fix it ?

Cheers

R.

mattbeef

in the config there should be an option that says something like IDE, ATA something like that and it will display what drives you have connected to your machine which should be a hard drive and optical drive (DVD drive etc)

jpor

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have a look in 'config'. See if you can see somethingon the lines of Hdisk0, 1 etc... If you can is there anything against them?

Failing that have you the IBM manual? If not, try having a look it on www.ibm.com