Install has 'killed' my laptop!

[RedMartin]

I've been trying to install 8.04 onto my Thinkpad T20

During the install procedure the screen went black and after about 10 minutes I could hear no more activity.

Now the machine won't power up. The lights flicker on for a second or two then nothing. The drive doesn't spin up and I can't get to the BIOS screen either.

Put the old XP drive in and still nothing!

Any ideas what I do I do now as it literally does nothing?

[Pumalite]

Change the CMOS

[RedMartin]

What and how? I'm not very techy minded!

[Pumalite]

Download Super Grub and stick it in your machine. It can fix your Windows MBR:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/supergrubdiskpage.html
Burn to disk and boot from it.

[Elderlygent]

My sympathies: it hasn't destroyed mine, but I can't access my Ubuntu partition.

As for burning to disk, that would be lovely if my CD drive wasn't out of action too thanks to Hardy.

[RedMartin]

Download Super Grub and stick it in your machine. It can fix your Windows MBR:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/supergrubdiskpage.html
Burn to disk and boot from it.

How will a boot disk work? Nothing happens when I switch the laptop on. It flashes it's lights briefly and then nothing.

[RedMartin]

Update:

It now starts up but will not rn for more than about twenty minutes before stopping. I've done all I can think off but it seems terminal.