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Worked fine this morning. Get back home, plug it in, gives me a weird line on startup saying I'm using a battery that isn't original. Whatever. Try to tell it to start anyway.

Everytime I try to start it, I get the Lenovo logo, then it flashes

Reset System

And restarts.

What do?

Worked fine this morning. Get back home, plug it in, gives me a weird line on startup saying I'm using a battery that isn't original. Whatever. Try to tell it to start anyway. Everytime I try to start it, I get the Lenovo logo, then it flashes >Reset System And restarts. What do?

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[–] • 1 pt

I'm not very familiar with Chinkpad, but I think they'll crap on you if you have a dead/defective battery.

Try to start it without the battery (if it's easily removable)

[–] • 1 pt

Removed the battery, which is actually the original battery, and looks in decent shape, started it on power, and it just did the same bullshit again. Lenovo screen, system reset.

So it isn't the battery.

Entered bios but I cant figure out which setting to fuck with. Thanks for your help tho. Let me know if you have any other ideas

[–] • 2 pts

Did you have automatic updates enabled?

Try what Bankster suggested (boot from a Live version of your OS from USB).

You can also press/hold SHIFT key down before powering it on (to boot into recovery mode).

[–] • 4 pts

OMG, I have no idea what happened, but simply holding shift seems to have solved the problem. It didn't prompt me to go into recovery mode, everything seems normal, all my shit is still there.

Thanks , , and !!!

[–] • 0 pt

Booting from the USB is fine.

I'll try recovery mode.

If not, does this mean I have to reinstall Linux and I lose everything on the computer?