⟐ Answered February 04, 2026 at 4:46 MST

⟐ Answer edited December 25, 2025 at 2:21 MST

Lately I have been getting this problem when booting the computer: "2100: Detection error on HDD0 (Main HDD). Press Esc to continue". I used to press Esc and then the computer would boot normally, but the other day when I booted the laptop I just got a black screen and nothing reacting (even if the power button had light, but it would not even switch off). As I did not know what to do, I took the laptop to a technician.

He was trying another hard drive in the laptop to see whether it was a problem with my HDD or with the connector of the motherboard and concluded that the problem was the motherboard and it had to be changed. Basically, the connector is a bit loose, so the HDD moves a bit, what causes the connection problem. As it is quite a lot of money, I decided to take the laptop home and try to figure out a solution.

The solution that I have found is to place two cotton pads from the ones used to remove make up below the HDD, then installing the HDD and place another cotton pad in between the HDD and the sponge that is inside the case. With the added pressure of the pads, the HDD does not move and everything works fine so far. However, I feel that this solution is not the best one. So, I was wondering whether you have better ideas.

Is there any other solution that you can think of so the HDD does not move or to fix the connector without changing the motherboard?

Can you suggest other materials that may be better than a cotton pad?

Cheers!

⟐ Commented May 25, 2025 at 11:29 MST

⟐ Commented September 29, 2024 at 2:37 MST

⟐ Answer edited December 23, 2023 at 23:31 MST

• Try charging the Battery to Full
• Remove Battery and tried booting it with Power directly.
• Changed the Keyboard.
• Removed the Bios Battery and tried to switch on.
• Removed the RAM and tried to switch On.

⟐ Answered May 30, 2023 at 13:28 MST

I connected it to the charger and it turns on automatically and beeps twice and shuts off on start up. It does not make any start up noises like the fan or anything of that nature.

Please help.

⟐ Commented April 21, 2023 at 4:01 MST

⟐ Answer edited November 10, 2022 at 8:08 MST

My T430 suddenly powers off. It does not show any sort of warning, blue screen of death or anything else. It just powers off completly. And it does not turns on until the battery is removed and installed again. If it is running on AC power i.e without battery, the power cord has to be plugged out and again plugged in to make it work again.

The time interval to turn off is completely random, sometimes 1 min, 1 hour, 10 sec etc. And it can happen after boot, in bios or anywhere else.

I have confirmed that it is not a heating issue by running a stress test for more than an hour and it worked fine.

I have also tried changing RAM, removing HDD, removing ultrabay disk drive, but doing these does not produce any difference.

I have also tried pressing the power button for 60 sec, but does not make any difference.

⟐ Answer deleted May 08, 2022 at 20:36 MST

⟐ Answered February 15, 2022 at 10:18 MST

⟐ Answer accepted July 22, 2021 at 19:55 MST

when i boot linux it works fine with the hdd mounted. but when i boot windows it is stuck on the loading forever. when i launch windows without the hdd it works. i managed to get the hdd work but windows was much slower. when i try to format the hdd on linux i get input/output error. but when i connect the hdd trough usb everything works. is it a hardware problem? how can i repair this ?

edit: windows 10 pro and linux mint 20

⟐ Answer accepted February 08, 2021 at 3:22 MST

⟐ Commented December 31, 2020 at 11:17 MST

⟐ Answer accepted October 01, 2020 at 20:35 MST

⟐ Edited June 06, 2020 at 6:16 MST

⟐ Answer edited March 04, 2020 at 7:16 MST

⟐ Answered February 29, 2020 at 11:03 MST

Please help and thanks

⟐ Answer accepted August 30, 2019 at 6:33 MST

1) Updated Display drivers

2) Deleted temp,and other junk files

3) checked disk and ran memtest

4) Disabled antivirus and firewall

5) Other games are works fine even heavy games like WOT, COD modern war etc

6) Reinstalled game but same issue

7) Ran in compablety mode

8) Tried in different user account

9) Ran as administrator game pop ups for 0.5 second and closes and right bottom corner notification comes about resolution so i checked with setting different resolutions but same issue

Please help and thank you in advance :)

⟐ Answered January 05, 2019 at 8:01 MST

⟐ Answered October 13, 2018 at 9:18 MST