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| 669212 | 2008-05-14 02:16:00 | Help………… I’ve arrived in Brisbane and my Presario 2500 Notebook won’t turn on. :( Don’t think it was bumped or anything so here are the Symptoms. Screen totally blank. Power light comes on. No HDD activity according to HDD light. Clicking noise which appears to be the DVD/CD ROM Suspected HDD (and still do) but removing it and slaving it to another computer it is recognised and all the files are visible. Although the DVD/CD ROM appears to be searching it won’t recognise a bootable XP CD. The DVD/CD Tray will only open using the paperclip trick. :eek: I’ve reset everything using the reset button underneath but still not a flicker on the screen or flicker from the HDD light. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 669213 | 2008-05-14 02:29:00 | Close lid and accidentally drop from great hight, call insurance agent and blame airline for damage! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 669214 | 2008-05-14 02:51:00 | Oh dear, I want to use it. :crying Has anyone heard of any of the airport scanning devices causing this sort of problem? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 669215 | 2008-05-14 02:53:00 | The airports always say they are okay, however?.......new lappy coming up! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 669216 | 2008-05-14 03:00:00 | Close lid and accidentally drop from great hight, call insurance agent and blame airline for damage! That is probably what the baggage handlers did to it |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 669217 | 2008-05-14 03:21:00 | Did you take the lappy with you on the plane?? Or was in the baggage hold? | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 669218 | 2008-05-14 03:45:00 | Help………… I’ve arrived in Brisbane and my Presario 2500 Notebook won’t turn on . :( Don’t think it was bumped or anything so here are the Symptoms . The DVD/CD Tray will only open using the paperclip trick . :eek: Er . . . . . . . . . . retrieve docs from HDD, phone insurance . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 669219 | 2008-05-14 08:15:00 | Now come on guys, harden up and let’s find which bit it actually is . ;) Could it be the CMOS battery? :confused: I’ve saved everything to a folder on this computer and run chkdsk F: /F and no errors presented so maybe it’s not the HDD? The HDD is a Hitachi 40gig and I’d like to test it from the USB port that it’s running from . Bit of a trick thoroughly testing one of these when you can’t boot from a floppy or CD . :confused: Anyway, I don’t want to die not knowing exactly which part of the system is causing the problem . :lol: One thing for sure it’s very early in the POST as we don’t seem to get to CMOS set-up . There’s nothing on the screen although that doesn’t mean it’s not trying to show something . I wish I could fit one of those gadgets that fit in a PCI slot and tell you with numbers what has happened to the POST . Anyway, lets have the theories . :help: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 669220 | 2008-05-14 08:21:00 | Well, it could be the screen at fault. Does your OS (really, I'm avoiding using "Windows" here) bootup? | sploodge (13749) | ||
| 669221 | 2008-05-14 08:52:00 | Well, it could be the screen at fault . Does your OS (really, I'm avoiding using "Windows" here) bootup? It could be screen, but we're a long way from any OS . It's got to be in the early part of the BIOS POST I reccon . :confused: |
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