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 [...]
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 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 [...]
My 5 years old Sony Vaio laptop worked fine last night, and I shut it down (vs. hibernating) when I was done. Today, it will not power up at all – no response when I hit the power button, no lights when connected to power. I’ve tried pressing power button for extended time, remove/reinsert battery, [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday when I started my laptop it displayed the Lenovo screen as usual but after that instead of booting it displayed a blank screen with white cursor blinking at the top right corner. It is very strange because it is not showing and error message and fan starts moving like I am working on some [...]
My son left our HP laptop on overnight. In the morning it was seemingly not running but the power lights were on. We’ve done this many times before and when we hit the computer keyboard or mousepad it would reinitiate. Nothing this time. I shut the lid. I re-opened the lid and tried to turn [...]
I had a problem with my Dell Smart PC 250N of overheating and shutting off after half an hour or so. I searched over the net and as per instructions on a web site opened up the laptop, cleaned the heatsink and the CPU and applied arctic silver thermal grease to the CPU and reassembled [...]
While showing a presentation a few days ago my laptop went into hibernating and shut down. AC plugged in. When attempted to power back on nothing happened. LED lights on front panel blink but power LED does not. My laptop is HP Pavillion dv5000. Probably the power (AC) adapter is dead. I think your power [...]
I have the following symptoms with my laptop. When I press the power button it lights up and I hear the fan and a single click sound, but nothing appears on the screen and it does nothing else. To power it off, I have to hold down the power button for about 10 seconds. Things [...]