HELP!! Laptop won't boot.

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by DeltaJ, Jun 12, 2005.

  1. DeltaJ

    DeltaJ Private First Class

    Okay I was playing a game, laptop was working fine. Something happened and it frooze. so I reset it and it began starting up. It got to loading win98 screen and then the screen went black. now when I try to start it all I get is a black screen no beep no accessing hard drive light nothing it just sits there. What the hell it was working fine a minute ago. I attached it to a CRT monitor and still nothing. is it dead.
     
  2. DeltaJ

    DeltaJ Private First Class

    Anybody
     
  3. lukera

    lukera Private E-2

    try taking out the battery and holding the reset button for 30 sec (hardware reset).

    that used to work on gateways.


    there also might be a little pin hole reset on the bottom of the laptop, try that.

    if your not getting a post beep then i wouldn't suspect your monitor, so hooking up a CRT wouldn't help.(allthough it doesn't hurt to try)
     
  4. DeltaJ

    DeltaJ Private First Class

    Tried hardware reset nothing happened, no pinhole, and I already hooked it up to a CRT.
    It's a CompUSA PC Amerinote RL400C or something.
     
  5. lukera

    lukera Private E-2

    did you try removing your battery and just plugging it in to a wall?
     
  6. Olley

    Olley Sergeant

    it sounds to me that something fried when u were playin that game. what were u playing? were u playing for a long time? does ur notebook get really hot sometimes? do u have a 3d accelerator card?... it could also be that the psu is failing since nothing seems to happen when u press the powerbutton...
     
  7. DeltaJ

    DeltaJ Private First Class

    It was the hard drive something came lose inside.
     
  8. Olley

    Olley Sergeant

    how does that happen???
     
  9. DeltaJ

    DeltaJ Private First Class

    beats me
     
  10. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

  11. Olley

    Olley Sergeant

    "...took the hard drive out..."
    enough said, :)
     

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