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  • 05-06-2005 11:45am
    #1
    damnyanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭


    Howdy,

    Looking for any suggestions :)

    My laptop won;t boot up. It powers up fine but does nothing else what so ever. All the hardware buttons seem to work fine (Goes into suspend when I press the screen down, DVD makes noise etc.) but I don't hear any noises from the hard drive.

    But the fact that it doesn't even bring up the menu to go into bios would mean its not a hard drive issue right ? I leave it there for a while and when I come back I hear no noises from it (e.g assume the monitor is out so login but no windows noise)

    Anyone know how I could try and find out? I've no idea what sort of warranty I have but I doubt it will cover this as it worked fine before I put it in my bag and came to Ireland.


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  • #2
    beller b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭beller b


    Just because it won't let you into the BIOS it can still be a prob with the hard drive. Remove the hard drive & start it up, if it lets you into the BIOS then there is a good chance its the hard drive.. Also have you tried booting from a cd windows or norton recovery etc


  • #3
    damnyanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    I mean when it powers up nothing at all happens. The lights come on and that's it. Nothing appears on the screen at any stage. I left the laptop on all day and it ran out of power but I lef the screen down so guessing it probably is the hard drive.


  • #4
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    does the screen powerup?


  • #5
    beller b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭beller b


    damnyanks wrote:
    I mean when it powers up nothing at all happens. The lights come on and that's it. Nothing appears on the screen at any stage. I left the laptop on all day and it ran out of power but I lef the screen down so guessing it probably is the hard drive.
    Have you tried what I said about removing the hard drive?


  • #6
    Peeps1977
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Peeps1977


    do u ever see anything on screen at all? could screen be buggered?just a thought


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  • #7
    Bebop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭Bebop


    what make of Laptop is it?

    Some laptops have the BIOS on a hidden hard drive partition,
    a HDD failure can result in the laptop reverting to default settings and disabling the BIOS setup, If you format a HDD you have to download a patch to re-enable the BIOS, you can also force the BIOS to the default values by pressing a key combination (usually Fn + F10) at bootup


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