laptop problems....anyone..please
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dinki
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Originally Posted by Bronco300
http:///forum/post/2450444
oh, and the screen never pulls anything up besides the compaq symbol...says press F10 for the etc...and then goes black and does it again
Wait, are you saying that it never starts to load windows? It just keeps showing the bios boot up image? If that's the case then you're in a lot more trouble than I thought.
http:///forum/post/2450444
oh, and the screen never pulls anything up besides the compaq symbol...says press F10 for the etc...and then goes black and does it again
Wait, are you saying that it never starts to load windows? It just keeps showing the bios boot up image? If that's the case then you're in a lot more trouble than I thought.
tangwhispr
Member
Originally Posted by Bronco300
http:///forum/post/2449482
sooooo tonight our laptop when bezerk...fiance was working in word on it and it started shutting word down...she rebooted the computer but when it tried to reboot it just continued over and over rebooting....does anyone know tons about laptops and have any suggestions? I reseated everying in the back(memory cards,etcetc)...and nothing helped...HP said to take it somewhere local.....we just traded family for this so if it ends up being a piece of junk and have to buy a new one i'm gonna be furious....so and help is greatly appreciated...its a compaq pressario 900US...thanks
I will preface this with I own a rather large computer company here in good ole indiana...typically in situations like this we one of 2 things, some sort of malware, or a bad HDD, most of the time if its a bad hdd, its just some bad sectors. To eliminate a bad Hdd run either HDD Regenerator 1.51 or HDAT2 4.5.3, both will test sector by sector for problems and mark bad ones bad and reassign a spare. If it runs clean then you have a windows problem...you can boot from your windows cd, and select the 2nd repair option, the 1st repair option will be recovery console. See if you can get it to boot, get your important stuff to a usb drive or Cd/dvd, then do a clean install of windows.
http:///forum/post/2449482
sooooo tonight our laptop when bezerk...fiance was working in word on it and it started shutting word down...she rebooted the computer but when it tried to reboot it just continued over and over rebooting....does anyone know tons about laptops and have any suggestions? I reseated everying in the back(memory cards,etcetc)...and nothing helped...HP said to take it somewhere local.....we just traded family for this so if it ends up being a piece of junk and have to buy a new one i'm gonna be furious....so and help is greatly appreciated...its a compaq pressario 900US...thanks
I will preface this with I own a rather large computer company here in good ole indiana...typically in situations like this we one of 2 things, some sort of malware, or a bad HDD, most of the time if its a bad hdd, its just some bad sectors. To eliminate a bad Hdd run either HDD Regenerator 1.51 or HDAT2 4.5.3, both will test sector by sector for problems and mark bad ones bad and reassign a spare. If it runs clean then you have a windows problem...you can boot from your windows cd, and select the 2nd repair option, the 1st repair option will be recovery console. See if you can get it to boot, get your important stuff to a usb drive or Cd/dvd, then do a clean install of windows.
bronco300
Active Member
Originally Posted by dinki
http:///forum/post/2450568
Wait, are you saying that it never starts to load windows? It just keeps showing the bios boot up image? If that's the case then you're in a lot more trouble than I thought.
yes...it turns on, shows the compaq symbol...flashing the F10 wording, then goes black, and redoes it...
http:///forum/post/2450568
Wait, are you saying that it never starts to load windows? It just keeps showing the bios boot up image? If that's the case then you're in a lot more trouble than I thought.
yes...it turns on, shows the compaq symbol...flashing the F10 wording, then goes black, and redoes it...
bronco300
Active Member
Originally Posted by TangWhispr
http:///forum/post/2450807
I will preface this with I own a rather large computer company here in good ole indiana...typically in situations like this we one of 2 things, some sort of malware, or a bad HDD, most of the time if its a bad hdd, its just some bad sectors. To eliminate a bad Hdd run either HDD Regenerator 1.51 or HDAT2 4.5.3, both will test sector by sector for problems and mark bad ones bad and reassign a spare. If it runs clean then you have a windows problem...you can boot from your windows cd, and select the 2nd repair option, the 1st repair option will be recovery console. See if you can get it to boot, get your important stuff to a usb drive or Cd/dvd, then do a clean install of windows.
i assume it'll run the cd even without being able to boot at all?
http:///forum/post/2450807
I will preface this with I own a rather large computer company here in good ole indiana...typically in situations like this we one of 2 things, some sort of malware, or a bad HDD, most of the time if its a bad hdd, its just some bad sectors. To eliminate a bad Hdd run either HDD Regenerator 1.51 or HDAT2 4.5.3, both will test sector by sector for problems and mark bad ones bad and reassign a spare. If it runs clean then you have a windows problem...you can boot from your windows cd, and select the 2nd repair option, the 1st repair option will be recovery console. See if you can get it to boot, get your important stuff to a usb drive or Cd/dvd, then do a clean install of windows.
i assume it'll run the cd even without being able to boot at all?
wattsupdoc
Active Member
I have sucessfully done this before on my PCs. Pull the hard drive out and connect it to the ribbon cable on another PC with a updated ani-virus program.Restart the good PC. you HD should now be detected and show up as a drive. Scan it. then do a defragment on it.When its done defragging, defrag it again. If your existing PC has a scandisk program it cant hurt to use that also. Now shut down the PC, disconnect the HD and reinstall it in your laptop. Try to restart uit. I did this on my wifes PC's as well as another fopr someone else. With very good results each time.
tangwhispr
Member
Originally Posted by Bronco300
http:///forum/post/2451184
i assume it'll run the cd even without being able to boot at all?
yes
http:///forum/post/2451184
i assume it'll run the cd even without being able to boot at all?
yes
nano reefer
Active Member
Originally Posted by m0nk
http:///forum/post/2449778
I've heard of viruses that do that, there was one really bad one back a couple years ago where this would happen. Unfortunately, I'm not a Winders guy (Linux only) but I can try to track down some info for you. My buddy owns a computer shop and even if he doesn't think it's the same virus he could at least help with some info. I'll get back to you in a bit...
linux is awesome. No bootup so no bootup errors.
http:///forum/post/2449778
I've heard of viruses that do that, there was one really bad one back a couple years ago where this would happen. Unfortunately, I'm not a Winders guy (Linux only) but I can try to track down some info for you. My buddy owns a computer shop and even if he doesn't think it's the same virus he could at least help with some info. I'll get back to you in a bit...
linux is awesome. No bootup so no bootup errors.