I have an IBM Thinkpad that wont boot up and wont get out of the sleep mode. It has Windows 98. There is power to it and everything else looks normal. Please help.

Did your computer ever work correctly?

Have you installed any new software recently?

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-- (Question: 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?')

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I personally do this as part of my shut down & power managemment .

During boot up , press Delete & in the Power Management page , make
sure it is set to Disable .

During install , no screensavers are selected . To remove , there
are many ways . One is to Open up Control Panel , select Add/Remove
Programs & click on Windows Setup . Go down to Accessories & click
on details . Untick Screensavers .

While Control Panel is open , click on System , then Device Manager .
Click on the + next to System devices ( down the bottom ) & if
Power Management ( or a similar name ) is there , delete it .

I then setup Power Management ( In Control Panel ) the way I like it ,
( set the screen to shut 1st & the power later ) I never have any
problems . John .