Hi all

A friend of ours gave us a laptop, it's quite old, I think the model number is 2630-TF4. It's an IBM ThinkPad. I was working fine when they had it but when I plugged it in the power light comes on but doesn't boot up. At the moment we just want to use it as a basic laptop (no internet), connected to the mains but was just wondering if there was anything else that we need to connect to get it working

No, not really. But to check that it's (hopefully not) hardware related, you might like to try;

A) Removing the battery and try it on the mains
B) Try it on battery power only.