i would say your first guess was right, maybe a capacitor did burn out, if you have a fairly good knowledge about these things, pull off the case and check for any electrolyte, if there isn't any,...

OR swap out the ram for a new pair to see if it's the ram.

buy a cheap mobo/cpu and check that way.

you can buy a working version of either for around $50

maybe a bad capacitor on the mobo?

my old laptop fried because a cocroach got stuck in the CPU cooling fan's LOL

mabe you havent installed your proper WIFI drivers?

you know, if your laptop has a floppy drive, you could place a copy of the BIOS you were trying to flash onto the floppy (make shure it is a cab or something) then stick it into laptop, then try to...

koolies if it works, this thread is solved =-D

well... on the other hand maybe it is old age, things do tend to die especially if its "years" old

well... with my compaq, (desktop) which is isnt really related, died from a failed mobo only aged a year old.

i think if you have the money, the cooling pad is the way to go

ooh if you had a old one, get a 9800gtx it rocks! good bang for yer buck

how old is the mobo?

does it have solid-state capacitors?

buy a laptop cooling pad, either your pc is too hot, ram is overclocked or maybe something is dying...

did you know that there is a problem with some CD drives as they were sent from japan. it happened to me!

i replaced a cd burner with one from samsung and it totally scrambled the ram.

brainstorm!

is it a dead hard-disk?

to test it, take it out and try to boot it on another machine. if it's successful, try booting a different hard drive on your rig.

if the other hard drive...

hi, this error beep sounds like a RAM error. (most mobos have long beeps for ram errors)

what BIOS is your motherboard using?

can you get into the operating system?

but then again have you...

your rig is showing something is either being shorted or is dead, might wana check the ram, one good way to check ram is to pull all ram out and leave one in, then repeat witht he other sticks.
...

also 2 of the fans are ultra big and 2 are extremely small to keep dust out =-)

this 8800GTS has a min power usage of 450W and a reccomended 530W.

my PSU has a output of 530W and i know the 8800 is receiving enough power because not too long ago i won a benchmark in sydney...

usually a flickering PSU light means it's either overloaded (by hardware or just old)

or in a bad case scenario, is fried

oh... didnt see it was solved...

noooooooooo

dont buy a new mobo just yet!

i have read that you can put the bios cab file on a floppy and then put it in ur floppy, on the next attempted bootup wait a few mins (10) then turn...

here are my specs,

GPU:Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS shader clock 1800mhz mem speed 800mhz core clock 550mhz
RAM:1.7GB 612mhz ram
CPU:AMD athlon X2 +5200 512Kb cache (2.7GHz each core!)
Power: Codegen...

hey its me again!

this time with more complex problems...

while i was playing driver parallel lines, at the beginning where you have to speed away.
as soon as i went into the big park space...

can you tell us if the computer does anything when you turn it on? or if the fans spin, any sign of life?

a flashing light, spinning hard drive or spinning fans? these can mean the pc is getting...

i had the same problem with my laptop but it was from aspire,
same problem different hardware.

maybe if you have internet acces and a floppy drive on your thinkpad, look up the manufacturers...

i agree with DMR it is a "little" cheaper to try out a new battery rather a whole new component.

im happy for ya m8 now i have my own problems ='-S