My laptop does not start or turns on and freezes
My Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop will not start for few days and then after few days later when I tried give another shot to restart. It does boot up then after few click it freezes and can turn off and boot up again.
So far I managed to boot up but in middle of boot up it freezes.
However, when I try to turn it back on, nothing happens. The screen doesn’t turn on, the fan doesn’t turn on. The only thing that happens is the LED lights turn on briefly.
I tried turning it on with and with out the battery and I get the same result.
This sounds like a possible problem with the laptop memory. It’s likely that one of the memory modules is not making good connection with the motherboard or failing. Try reconnecting both memory modules. Try removing memory modules one by one and test the laptop with each one separately. If you have only one module installed, try replacing it with a know good memory.
May 15th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
hello there,
my laptop keeps rebooting over and over again even though i tried the different options such as:
start normally / safe mode / last known config
pls help!
May 15th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
jamie,
How the laptop is rebooting? Can you see anything on the screen? Does it have enough time to load Windows or reboots right away?
May 24th, 2009 at 10:02 am
hey laptop freak i need ur help srioulsy, well firstly my toshiba satelite pro l300 laptop screen goes blank after the vista loading bit at the begining, i dont know why this has happed ned but i asked my brother and he said that when he when on it it came up with a repair thing so he clicked repair but now nothing starta and after the microsoft loading bit it stays blank so what should i do now. please help asap thanks for you reading time
May 25th, 2009 at 9:10 am
dharmesh,
It’s possible that you have a problem with the video driver. Here’s something you can try.
Boot the laptop in VGA mode.
Turn on the laptop and when Toshiba logo appears on the screen, press F8. Select “Enable VGA mode” and press enter. In this mode all drivers are loaded, except the video driver. If your laptop works in VGA mode, most likely the video driver is damaged and has to be reinstalled.
While in VGA mode, uninstall the video driver and restart the laptop in normal mode. Can you? If you can, download and install the video driver again.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:51 am
I have the following problem with my Toshiba Satellite SA60-122 (PSA60E).
It worked fine yesterday evening and I shut down Windows normally via Start->Shut down. No problems there. The laptop was then moved from the room and lay on a bed during the night, it was not dropped or anything like that.
Then, today when I wanted to continue my work the following happened: upon pressing the Power On button, the Caps-Lock, F10 and F11 LEDs light up for a few seconds. Cooling fan is audible. After a few seconds though, there is a sort of “click” to be heard coming from the area where the Hard Disk Drive is located. With this “click” the laptop immediately goes in dead mode. I guess this means the hard drive died overnight? As said above, the laptop was not dropped or otherwise roughly handled. If not a HDD death, what else could this be?
Looking forward to hear from y’all,
Rick
May 29th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
It came back alive! Here’s what happened: because I wanted to know exactly what kind of HDD is inside the SA60-122, I took out the hard drive, noted the part number and put it back. Couldn’t resist the urge to try of course, so I switched on the laptop. After a Windows session in safe mode, restart and everything works fine!
I’ll be darned:-)
Rick
May 30th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I also experience that in my laptop. Sometimes it just start working and I just reboot it then its back to normal.
May 31st, 2009 at 12:58 am
Well, the “click” returned today
But now that I know what to do, i.e. remove the HDD and put it back, I had it working in no time. Still, this worries me a bit, although Active@ Hard Disk Monitor v1.3.95 tells me everything’s OK.
It should be noted that this behavior occurred both times after the laptop was carried/moved from the desk. Apparently, even the slightest movement/handling is enough to somehow upset the HDD or even become dislodged?? Should I be looking for a replacement HDD?
I’ll keep you posted!
May 31st, 2009 at 4:18 am
What should I look for when buying a replacement HDD? 40GB ain’t much anyway these days so it might be a good idea to upgrade anyway.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I have evo N400c,I was installing updates and the battery ran down before the updates finished ,now i can not get it to boot back up into windows.Any help would be great
June 17th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I have a toshiba satellite p205-s6307 and when the battery dies if it is unplugged from the wall the unit will not come back to windows until I restart it many many times. When I charge it up and turn it on it will only go to the Toshiba screen and it never loads up Windows log in screen. Something in start is missing or it is searching for something and not finding it. Please help laptop freak!
June 18th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I have a Dell Latitude D600 . . .
that was recently purchased used . . .
(about a week ago) . . .
I plugged it in yesterday . . .
to charge the battery . . .
the plug arced a little . . .
but everything seemed fine after that . . .
the battery indicator on the screen . . .
showed that it was charging . . .
so I shut it down . . .
the charging light was steady green.
After a while the charging light . . .
started to flash green . . .
I assumed that meant it was at 100% charge . . .
so I unplugged it.
Now the computer won’t start at all . . .
The power up button flickers green then goes out . . .
and the power on light stays green then goes out . . .
with or without the AC power adaptor . . .
When I plug in the AC adaptor . . .
the battery charging light flashes green . . .
as it did when I unplugged it.
No screen . . .
No Hard Disk Indicator . . .
nothing else seems to work.
I do have some experience with desktop computers . . .
but have never worked on a notebook before.
Is this a simple problem to fix . . .
or should I return it to the seller ? ? ?
June 24th, 2009 at 8:31 am
I have a problem with my gateway notebook and I have tried to reinstall windows to see if its a software related issue with no success. Heres the problem: sometimes it turns on but not boot while the HD light doesn’t light on; othertimes it turns on and boot to windows and would freeze up after 10-30 mins with the HD light solid. Please help!
Thank you.
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 am
I have a laptop that i built in a vlass it is distributed by Compel. Well the other day I was shutting the computer down and i thought it was all the way off and i guess it wasn’t but i unplugged it, and now it turns on but the loading screen just keeps on loading. What do I do? I have onmly have the computer for a week.
July 8th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I have a Toshiba Satellite that only turn on without the power cord. Once on i can plug it back in and it charges the battery, what could that be?
July 19th, 2009 at 9:38 am
I have an HP Pavillion dv6700 Entertainment PC. Several weeks ago my dvd/rom disappeared from the mapping and the drive was unrecognizable. This was fixed with a reboot. Then I found that opening large files of photos was causing the laptop to freeze. THEN when I would reboot, it would load WinVista and the icons appeared, then it froze up, but my animated curser was still moving. I quickly extracted all personal files off the laptop and put them on to an ext. hd. I removed all those files (100 gig) from the laptop. I deleted all unnecessary program files save three that I used frequently. Sims 3, Corel paintshop pro, and World of Warcraft. After removing all files I attempted a disk cleanup, which froze the laptop completely (animation mouse included). Rebooted and tried again, same result. I then attempted a disk defrag. That ran and ran and ran and 8 hours later was still running. I cancelled and reran it, six hours it still was running leaving me to wonder if it was working at all. Again tried doing more than one thing and the laptop froze. Went in to the performance and after an update it went from 3.4 rating to a 2.7 with regard to a Windows Aero?? Physical memory says there is no physical memory and 3/4 is cached? At this point i’m assuming it’s a memory related issue but not sure what i need to do now or why this suddenly became a problem. I am not a beginner at computers but seems recent models such as mine, I am. Step by step I can usually figure it out then. Please help based on your experience what I should start with replacing/testing and if that doesn’t solve it, next probable item… Thank you in advance!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 2:06 am
hi, I think my laptop (HP nx6110) is on its last legs, It will not start up smoothly all the time and I have to press down on the actual body of the laptop and hold it down to keep it operating !!, I am doing this now and it works perfectly until I take the weight off the damn thing ?!, sometimes it works smoothly and loads up ok but then freezes and will only operate when I push down on it ?, please help ?
August 4th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I have a t22 laptop this laptop problem. When i pass Power button just flick hdd light but did not start laptop. 2-3 days passing when i pass power button and start my laptop but 1-2 day s pass seen same problems……….. how can i fixed it.
August 7th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
KAISAR HSAN,
It’s possible that your laptop fails to start because of a faulty memory module. Do you have two memory modules installed? Can you try removing them one by one and test the laptop with each module separately? It might work just fine when only one (good) module is installed.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:04 am
I try to start it up, but all it gives me is the little loading bar at the bottom.It just keeps loading. Plz Help!!
September 8th, 2009 at 2:52 am
I switch the power button on my hp pavillion tx 1000, the lights come on and tha fan starts up for a secound or two then immediatly cuts out. Iv tried holding the power button in, taking the battery out and using the mains lead however the results is the same, can you help please?
September 24th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
hey laptop freak,
i have an old sony laptop and is now giving me a problem.
the problem is that when i turned on my computer sometimes it is turned on normally and other times the “on” light is lit, you can hear the laptop firing up and the dvd drive trying to read etc. but the screen is just pitched black.
when that happens i have to detach and reseat the ram or sometimes have to shake the computer in order for the computer to work again. Later the problem would sometimes come back again and again.
any idea what is wrong with my laptop.
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:51 am
Hi,
My dell vostro1510 is facing boot problem.
It starts and asks for HDD password.when i give password,it asks to choose from
A)start windows in safe mode
b)start windows normally n so on…
When i give enter keys to start windows normally,i see XP logo screen for 3-4 secs and then system gets off automatically.
Again it starts and same process comes as above.
Kindly please help me
October 9th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Hello all, been having some problems with my HP Pavilion DV600, and it isn’t even 2 yrs old yet. The problem just started today, as I was using it. What happens is, I’ll power it up, all the lights will come on, fan instantly kicks on, think everything else follows suit, because I am able to see HP logo, and Vista sign in screens (if I even get that far). I can manage to sign in, maybe even get to a website, but soon after, my screen will freak out. Get all sorts of lines, and what would appear to be static.
Sometimes, I won’t even get that far, and as soon as I turn it on, the screen will go black, with again, what would appear to be static. Tried going thru BIOS, screen freaked out, tried repairing start up, screen freaked out. Really not sure what to make of it because I do get a picture, and things do work…sometimes, albeit not for very long.
Basically, before I go paying HP $400, which is what they siad it would cost, even though they had no clue what was wrong with it, I’m on here trying to find out if perhaps I can fix it myself or if anyone has an idea what could be wrong. Not a professional tech. by any means, but I believe it to be either the motherboard, or the heat sink.
Guy at HP said it was a problem with display hardware, but how can that be if I am getting a picture? On a side note, how can someone KNOW what they are going to charge, WITHOUT knowing what the problem is? ANY HELP WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Hello Guys,
For couple of days I have a weird problem with my laptop.
I have a Acer Travelmate 4050.
The problem is starting up the Windows XP Home. When I push the on-button of the laptop, as always, first I get the logo of Acer. But it doesn’t go to the loading screen of Windows XP, as it should do.
However, sometimes, if I turn if on-and-off couple of times, I do see the Windows XP loading screen and then it starts up normaly.
I also have the problem with my LCD screen. Most of the time, some of the parts on the screen are not perfectly visible. For example, if I push the F2 button to go to the BIOS, I see strange letters. It is very hard to read what is shown on the screen; the letters are changing shapes and you see all new and strange shapes on the screen. This only happens when I am in BIOS.
If the systems do start up, and I am in My Document etc., I see some regions on the screen little pinkish. I also see a pinkish effect when I download things; you know the view of a file moving from the earth to the folder. In that view, I see a pinkish region between the picture of the earht and folder.
Hope someone can help me.
Best Regards,
MCAN
October 14th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
MCAN,
Sound like a problem with the video card. Apparently, that’s why you have some problem with video in Windows.
Test your laptop with video on the external monitor. If you see same pinkish regions on the external video, again, most likely this is video card failure.
November 18th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Hello. laptop Freak!
I got a problem with my HP pAvilion dv6000. I turn it on, but screen remains dark, no HP logo, nothing. Fan works fine, I tried to change memory, nothing. But, sometimes, I can boot it, but after 10 seconds it get stuck completely! Before that, I changed LCD screen, do you think that it get more power than it should? Previous one was broken. What about inverter? Any comments? Thank you!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I have a toshiba satellite m70 laptop.
I got hit with a virus, I used mbam to remove everything, but a couple of days later when I try to start up my laptop it won’t go past the toshiba logo page. Even if I press F12 or F2 it just stalls there, so I had to power down and restart it. Sometimes I have to do that up to 15 times for it to fully boot up.
I used Chkdsk to see if there was any problems, nothing was found.
What can be causing this?
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:51 am
My Dell d 640 does not turn on I change both memories Ram both PC continued with same problem now I’d like to know if should I buy a new motherboard or this matter is caused for a generic memory ram or a generic memory ram can’t do this kind of matters…because my pc turn on for few seconds and after that it turn on the lighs both the screen is black and it turn off again….I’ll appreciate if someone can help me out…
December 28th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Brand new dell inspiron laptop with windows 7 i got for christmas. Was on it for 10 min. It froze when i was on the internet. I went to turn off my new dell laptop yesterday and it said please do not unplug or turn of your computer uploading updates. It has been loading 3 of 4 updates for over 24 hours. It says resuming windows and then goes to a black screen that says that. What happened and how do i fix it??
December 28th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Dave,
Not sure what’s going on.
Here’s what you can try.
Turn on the laptop and as soon as Dell logo appears on the screen press F8. Select “Last Known Good Configuration” from the menu, press Enter and see if it helps.
Here’s another trick. Unplug the AC adapater, remove the battery. Press on the power button for a few seconds. Now plug in the AC adapter and try turning it on.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:05 am
I have a Dell Inspiron 1526. There is a problem with it when I turn it off for hours. It does not boot up though the lights turn on. All I see are the lights and a blank screen and no Dell logo. But if I try to turn it off and on and off and on again, it goes back to work as perfect as it can be. No problem as long as it is on. It does not freeze nor stops. It even turns on perfectly when it was just turned off. The only problem is when it was shut down for a long time or for some hours. But every time it happens, I just have to keep turning it off and on and off and on until the Dell logo appears and then presto it will work perfectly again until the next time I turn it off for a long time. Any idea what is wrong? Thanks.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I downloaded the latest version of software for my Iphone the computer frozen, and now it will not start when it is turned on. it loads the screen of safe mode, safe mode with… last know config., and start windows normally. All 5 of these options do not work and it continues after pressing one to restart and go back to the same screen. Can anyone help please?
I have loads of things on there that I have not backed up (my fault) and I’m desperate to sort this problem out . Can anyone help me please
February 11th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I apologise I am using Windows XP on a Sony Vaio VGN A517m for the info on the earlier post
February 18th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
hi
i have acer aspire one atom series 8gb 512mb ram
i was using my notebook last nite after completing my work i turned it off
on next morning when i turned it on green power led show me that notebook is on but display not coming
i tried to on off it several time but no result
after that i read a topic on a forum about this article in which they said to hold the power key for 30min then plug the charger while holding the power button for again 30 sec and then enter the battery i did that but still no result
my notebook show batery charging power led every thing but not displaying windows what happen i dont no but kindly you people help me out for this problem how can i make it in order as i am facing so much problem
regards
zaib malik
February 19th, 2010 at 11:57 am
you know where you switch a laptop on and the dell sign shows until the bit where its loading, it stays on loading for a really long time and does not pass that stage, i don’t know what to do. could you please give me some tips on how to overcome this problem.
March 1st, 2010 at 7:19 am
So my laptop was on and my daughter jumped on the keyboard of it and I typed my password in and color looked crazy so I turned it off and turned it back on still the color was messed up so I turned off again and now comes on but will not boot at all. What is wrong and how do I fix it?
March 7th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
i have a toshiba satellite L305-S5944 it got a 32 bit intel duo-core pentium 3. The problem I am having is that when i go to boot it up unless the bios is in the default settings I get a really bad beeping noise. it’s a noise like ahhhhhhhhhhhh it doesn’t have a rythmn to it like it’s 1 long 2 short. it’s just loud and obnoxius. I tried flashing the bios which went successfully. however that didn’t solve the problem. I tried reformatting and installing the OS after the OS and the browser especially started acting funny like being in IE and the file tab would start acting funny so i would reset back and it would be okay for awhile then it go and do the same thing within 20 minutes. I did a virus check w/ norton and a spyware search I’ve got no clue what the story is. if i am trying to boot from a disk I can’t do it the noise comes on. it’s driving me crazy.
March 29th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Windows did not start normally keeps looping on startup. Help?because of shut down did not successfully,my pc did not open normally.it stucks with only lights no windows xp open.
All four options such as safe mode, safe mode with networking,etc, Start windows normally, and last know configuration does not work. It simply restarts over and over.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
hey there
ive got an acer travel mate 4220 ive had it for about 4/5 yrs now it was working fine till today wen i went to turn it on.. When i did turn it on it loaded and did a system check like it always does and when it came up for me to sign in my mouse pad keyboard and all other buttons would not work and did nothing… i left it for a bit and came back and the screen saver was on i tried to move my mouse altho this time the screensver didnt go.. The led lighhts and my wireless lights are showing and blinking every now and then yet nohting is woking any ideas?
thanks heaps
October 12th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
kay well i borrowed my friends Toshiba because my windows vista computer is not working i have had her computer for about um lets say only um 3 hours now hers is doing the same thing on start up it doesn’t seem to load if freeze in the middle of start up , on this computer it randomly just started working again ..for her computer the only thing i did was install my modem but on this computer it was doing the same thing….i have tried putting the disk in and connecting the cords better , and even waiting days . but mine didn’t turn on till today and i held f8 down on start up it seemed to work but i tried that yesterday nothing happened only today it responded umm help me
August 24th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
sir ,
my laptop is not properly worked at this time
and my laptop is not taken o s at this time
when be try it than my laptop restart and caps lock and num lock is started is running and running.
pl z tell me solution’s
August 29th, 2011 at 5:43 am
I turned on my Dell Inpiron and it freezez at my backround image….Is there buttons I can press to un-freeze it? Is it permenetly broken? My dad will kill me…It was 800 dollars
November 1st, 2011 at 4:29 pm
I would appreciate any suggestions on fixing my laptop (Asus X50N, 2 GB RAM, 120HDD). I have used my laptop for just over 3 years, no serious issues until this morning when it would not even boot up. The symptoms are as follows:
1. The power light turns on for about 1-3 seconds, and the fan turns briefly for about a second and then shuts down completely.
I have tried the following so far:
1. Tried another power supply unit
2. Cleaned the fan
3. Tried turning the power on and off several times
4. I disassembled the laptop: removed the hard drive, dvd, wireless cards, modem, etc, removed the heat sink and checked the cpu was mounted properly (seemed ok, no discolouration),removed the ram, etc. I cleaned the fan.
5. I assembled the motherboard with the following: re-assembled the cpu and heat sink back, inserted the ram, fixed the fan, and connected the battery only.
6. When I press the power button (no matter how long I press it for), the green led lights up briefly (1-3 seconds) and the light for the mute/audio button lights up, and the fan turn for a second. Then nothing at all. I also tried this with the AC power supply connected, and it made no difference.
Any helpful solutions to fixing my laptop would be welcome. Many thanks, Thom