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HP Pavillion DM3-112sa

  • 05-11-2012 9:43am
    #1
    FSL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭


    The daughters laptop blue screened on switch off and on switching on the power light and wireless light came on briefly and then went off then came back on and then went off in a continuously loop until the battery was removed.

    It wouldn't boot from a USB or even display anything.

    I removed hard drive it is totally dead but with it removed the laptop happily boots from a USB stick.

    I have never experienced the situation where a dead hard drive creates the behaviour shown by the laptop.

    Therefore before putting in a working drive has anyone experienced this sort of behaviour and is there any possibility that a fault on the laptop could have fried the drive and will do so again with a new drive.


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  • #2
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    FSL wrote: »
    I have never experienced the situation where a dead hard drive creates the behaviour shown by the laptop.

    Therefore before putting in a working drive has anyone experienced this sort of behaviour and is there any possibility that a fault on the laptop could have fried the drive and will do so again with a new drive.

    Have seen it before, also with HP laptops, IIRC. Replace the drive and she'll be fine. Consider a solid state disk, no mechanical parts so they can take some abuse. ;)


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