IBM ThinkCentre - Popular Questions, Answers, Tips & Manuals

You may have to Reformat your hard drive first. The current hard rive may have a bad operating system on it or one that is newer than XP. In some cases, when a computer has a more current operating system installed, it will not allow an older operating system to write over it. That is why I said, reformat the hard drive. Remember, hardware drivers are written for Windows 10 now, so old drivers may not be functional any longer.

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Windows10? Remove the cd drive through the hardware menu and restart the pc. It will reinstall the cddrive. Perhaps this will work open the computer, take carefully out the cd player at the end is an hole to manually open the tray. At least you can get out the dvd.

Regarding settings not saving You mention that you removed the CMOS battery... You normally need a working CMOS battery [one that is not flat] for the computer to be able to remember changes to the BIOS settings. Regarding BIOS being in Spanish I would hope there would be a language option somewhere in the BIOS settings where you might be able to select English as the display language.

Is it a raid drive? If so you need to format it correctly. If not, check the bios setup and insure your uefi or ahci and legacy options are correct. Check the sata operation should be usb. Check that the boot sequence is in order. Give me more information and I'll help you

fan working? cd rom drawer open and close? power on led working. hard drive spinning?

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you might try resetting the cmos then you might try using a usb keyboard. I use a usb wireless keyboard with a touchpad and it does the job. Good luck. After you clear the cmos and then turn it back on it should start re-decting the hardware.

Get a 500 watt unit and make sure it fits in the allotted space. And if the graphics card needs a special power cord connected to it make sure that the PS has it.

Check the bios of the system and check the boot order.

I think you need to borrow someone else's computer to write the information to the blank floppy. Good luck. Paul

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Do you mean you're installing Windows from a USB stick (pendrive)? See if the following link helps you. http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Windows-7-Using-Pen-Drive

Is that a laptop or a desktop? If it is a desktop, that would depend on your keyboard where the printscreen button would be located, if it is a laptop, can you please put the full model of the laptop?

First of all it might be a virus so you should follow this link as for a Great Malware Removal Guide: http://www.agady.com/great-malware-removal-guide-or-how-to-remove-svchost-exe-malware/ Now it might be a faulty software you've installed which is trying to use a file or resource you don't have so what we need to do is: 1. on your keyboard hit start+R (It'll give you a RUN command line). 2. Type MSCONFIG (hit enter) 3. go to STARTUP (Tab above) and click "Disable all" 4. go to SERVICES (Tab above) and tick "hide all microsoft services" then click "disable all" 5. hit ok and restart. 6. if DLL error is gone, start adding back startup items and services (as described in line 3 and 4) until DLL error returns and then you'll know which starup item or service caused the problem in the first place. How to get rid of RUN DLL message

i think your ram got stucked.....reinstall os...if it doesn't.....reinstall from bios

Hi You should be able to download them from the support section of IBM's web site Cliff

I suspicion you may not have your model number exactly correct, although what you have typed may actually appear on your computer. If you have a printed manual or CD/DVD with a PDF manual on it, you should see if you can find the model number in there and/or look further on the computer itself, for other model markings (like the front, back, sides, etc.) Here's a link to Lenovo's support website: Home Lenovo Support US