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It's a german vendor, and that would be for return. Wich I'm gonna inquire about tomorrow.

It was sold by a vendor with a one-month warranty.

So after coming home I tested it again, thouroughly. Since yesterday evening, so for almost 24 hours, the laptop was without power supply, main battery, and CMOS battery attached. Before plugging them in again, I kept the power button pressed for more than a minute, then put in the main battery...

Hi th3p00r, Unfortunately, I can't even get into BIOS at the moment since nothing boots at all, the laptop turns on but only shows a blank screen, not even POST-info is displayed. Thus I can't revert the changes I've made..

I think so too! I was just getting a bit nervous since it's a newly bought laptop for a friend.. Alright, will try all these tricks again as well as inspecting the RAM, and gonna update once done with all of that.

Also something I already did. But perhaps I didn't press the button long enough after taking out the CMOS battery, or missed some other small step. I will try all these combinations more thouroughly again in the evening and will update it here again. Until then: so, you also seem to agree...

Hi rocktalkrock, unfortunately I've tried this already a few times. I can try again later though in the evening.

Hi all, so, I bought a second-hand laptop (thinkpad t440s) and wanted to check the hardware with memtest86+. For this though I needed to disable some UEFI settings to have the computer boot into legacy mode (following instructions here...

Hi utroz and thanks for your reply! After a few days of testing it seems that 1. the PSU is damaged 2. some other components (I guess the motherboard) is damaged too. 1. I took out the PSU and put it into another PC which hardware needs less power. The PC runs with it but the PSU makes a...

Computer doesn't boot anymore. Okay, so my PC had been acting weird for quite some time. Since I bought it cheaply as used a few months ago, I ran into the following issues: 1. Everytime at startup it displayed 'A new CPU has been inserted'. I've checked around and it seemed to be a connection...