IBM Thinkpad problems

[J]

Hello all:
I just upgraded my Thinkpad 600X to XP Home. I ran Fdisk and started clean.
Everything worked just fine on the first boot but now it hangs up in the
"starting windows XP" screen. I can start it in safe mode and device manger
says everything is ok....
So, why am I locking up in the boot?
Thanks for your help...
J.

 

[Malke]

Hello all:
I just upgraded my Thinkpad 600X to XP Home. I ran Fdisk and started
clean. Everything worked just fine on the first boot but now it hangs
up in the "starting windows XP" screen. I can start it in safe mode
and device manger says everything is ok....
So, why am I locking up in the boot?
Thanks for your help...
J.

Probably because you don't have proper drivers for the Thinkpad's
hardware and/or the Thinkpad was inadequate for XP (I don't know any of
that model's specs). By their very nature, laptops have proprietary
hardware. Look on IBM's site for your particular model and see if XP is
supported on that model and if so, get all the drivers and IBM software
for it. You didn't need to use Fdisk - the XP cd is bootable and you
should do all your formatting with it.

Malke

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

I looked at the IBM website on your behalf.. there are many variations on
the ThinPad 600X theme.. it might help if we knew the model number too..

 

[R. McCarty]

I used to work in a company that used IBM Thinkpad 600's. Best
I can remember the BIOS setup for those notebooks is fairly complex.

Have you check settings related to Boot Sequence and Network type
of boots. We used to have issues with upgrading them to Win2000 &
had problems with Network startup.
You might also want to check & see how many down level revisions
the Thinkpad's BIOS version is from the latest available. Those shipped
originally with Windows 9X and I think use a BX chipset. You might
need a BIOS update to bring it to full ACPI compliancy.