The laptop turns on without anything on the screen

I have my Nec Versa laptop which works perfect when turned on. However when I switch on the power, the front blue power light turns on but without anything on the screen. I have to force the blue light off by pressing down the power switch. I try the turn on/off process for quite a [...]

HP Pavilion dv6000 will not start when I push power

I have a HP Pavilion dv6000. I push power and it flashes for a second then nothing. The power supply is fine, as is the battery. The place I bought it says I should just buy a new one for the price of repairs. How do I know if it’s Mother Board, or could bad [...]

How do I recover software on Toshiba Satellite laptop?

I have a Toshiba Satellite R15 with Windows XP. It doesn’t boot, it says that \system32\hal.dll is missing. I have a recovery disc, but nothing happens when I put in. Is there something special I should do?
Do you understand that running the recovery disc will erase everything from the hard drive? Please back up all [...]

My dog knocked my laptop off the table and it stopped working

My dog knocked my laptop off the table when it was on now the laptop starts but no image appears on the screen. The light comes on when I press on the power button and the fan starts working, but the screen remains dark. I tested laptop with an external monitor and couldn’t get it [...]

Laptop died. When I turn it on, the power light comes on and turns off.

My laptop just died as I came back from school. I took the battery out and had it unplugged. I waited a minute or so, in this time I pressed the power button to drain whatever energy was left in the circuitry and after I just flipped it back over and placed the battery back [...]

Media test failure error message after hard drive replacement

I just changed out my hard drive on my Panasonic CF-Y2. I reloaded windows XP and can see all of the files on my hard drive when I use a Linux CD Rom operating disk, so I know the drive works, but I cannot boot XP from my hard drive. I continue to get the [...]

Laptop getting power but turns off after about 3 seconds

It looks like my laptop getting power and charging the battery but when I go to turn it on the power light goes on for about 3 seconds the the unit turns back off again. Any ideas???
It’s a Toshiba Satellite P300.
It’s possible that there is a problem with the AC power adapter. Maybe the adapter [...]

Laptop does not show hard drive in the BIOS

When I go to the Bios it shows nothing for the HDD. Does that mean the drive needs to be replaced? I cant tell if the drive is working or not.
Could be bad hard drive (most likely) or there is a problem with the hard drive controller on the motherboard (less likely).
1. Enter the BIOS [...]

Laptop starts with 4 short beeps followed by 3 short beeps

When I turn my laptop on, I have a black screen and get 4 short beeps followed by 3 short beeps. I’ve tried removing the battery and holding the power button for 30 seconds, but to no avail. When I try to power up after this, I get a 1-1 beep. Following attempts without removing [...]

My laptop keeps restarting

My laptop keeps restarting and will not let me go to safe mode or anything. It keeps restarting. Has any one had this before? Know what to do? My memory is inserted properly.
Try replacing memory with a known good stick. Maybe your memory module is bad.
If you have two memory modules installed in the laptop, [...]