Hi there,

I've got IBM ThinkPad R32, 1.8 MHz Celeron. I just done upgrade of my RAM month ago from 512 to 1024. Everything ok, no problems at all...

Today I left my laptop on the charger for like 3 hrs, when I came back screen was lighting, [black to normal window], couldn't even move with cursor, or restart it. I've pressed power button for 5 sec to shut down machine. After new start windows was not started properly,
I have decided for "last known configuration", but after log in to my system screen was lighting the same way, can hear win sonnet, can see my background, but I can't move with my cursor again, even press any key on my keyboard. Screen just lighting black.

I know, sounds like a HW problem, maybe some loose cable, or something....

Any advice, anybody please?

*** I can get in to BIOS, screen lighting, but keyboard works ***

Thanks for some helpfull answer!

Hello bobanes, welcome to PCHF.

Can you describe this "lighting" in more detail? Not sure what you mean, but is definately a hardware issue bob, if your problem is occuring at a BIOS level.

Hi Sound like it could also be an issue with the new ram you installed the memory is most likely to be shared with the graphic in the laptop causing the weird screens and frezze. I would remove the new ram and see if it works properly but if it is faulty you may need to do a reinstall of the o/s to get it going again.