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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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Since you say you did nothing to it, could be the BIOS battery is dead and BIOS options got reset.

How old is your ThinkPad? What model? What version of Mint? (Mint is based on Ubuntu, AFAIK)

People having this problem seem to have wrong UEFI BIOS settings. Seems not only ThinkPads are affected.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1404141/ubuntu-22-04-reset-system-bootloop https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/ssy57h/reset_system_then_restart_after_installing_ubuntu/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/1373339/ubuntu-20-04-stuck-in-reset-system-loop