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It's a german vendor, and that would be for return. Wich I'm gonna inquire about tomorrow.

It was sold by a vendor with a one-month warranty.

So after coming home I tested it again, thouroughly. Since yesterday evening, so for almost 24 hours, the laptop was without power supply, main battery, and CMOS battery attached. Before plugging them in again, I kept the power button pressed for more than a minute, then put in the main battery...

Hi th3p00r, Unfortunately, I can't even get into BIOS at the moment since nothing boots at all, the laptop turns on but only shows a blank screen, not even POST-info is displayed. Thus I can't revert the changes I've made..

I think so too! I was just getting a bit nervous since it's a newly bought laptop for a friend.. Alright, will try all these tricks again as well as inspecting the RAM, and gonna update once done with all of that.

Also something I already did. But perhaps I didn't press the button long enough after taking out the CMOS battery, or missed some other small step. I will try all these combinations more thouroughly again in the evening and will update it here again. Until then: so, you also seem to agree...

Hi rocktalkrock, unfortunately I've tried this already a few times. I can try again later though in the evening.

Hi all, so, I bought a second-hand laptop (thinkpad t440s) and wanted to check the hardware with memtest86+. For this though I needed to disable some UEFI settings to have the computer boot into legacy mode (following instructions here...