laptop will not boot
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laptop will not boot
My laptop won't boot. I have tried booting in safe mode, recovery consol etc. I tried booting from the OS cd and it hangs when it says starting windows.
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Re: laptop will not boot
Sounds like a hard drive to me.
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I think you are right, Buck. I've talked to the IT guys at work and they said the same thing. I am hoping it is just a bad boot sector, rather than the drive being completely fried.
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Generally when they go bad that is it They are cheap. Still sucks though.
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Finally got the recovery console to work, ran chkdsk like 5 times until no errors were returned.. so I am back up at least for now.. the good news is: I just ordered a new hard drive for this laptop, a 320 gig drive so I am quadrupling my storage (80 gig - 320 gig)
The even better new is ....... Mother allowed me to order a NEW laptop... Quad core I7; 8 gig ram, ati Raedon 6770 with 1 gig; 160 gig SSD; 500 gig 7200 rpm HD...this baby should just flat out scream.... Watch out CJ I am coming for ya...
The even better new is ....... Mother allowed me to order a NEW laptop... Quad core I7; 8 gig ram, ati Raedon 6770 with 1 gig; 160 gig SSD; 500 gig 7200 rpm HD...this baby should just flat out scream.... Watch out CJ I am coming for ya...
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WOW
We may have to set up a new server just for you guys with the hot rod puters!
By the time the rest of us get in, you'll be half way thru the map.
We may have to set up a new server just for you guys with the hot rod puters!
By the time the rest of us get in, you'll be half way thru the map.
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Re: laptop will not boot
You'll be smokin' Wind.Windstalker-PG- wrote:Finally got the recovery console to work, ran chkdsk like 5 times until no errors were returned.. so I am back up at least for now.. the good news is: I just ordered a new hard drive for this laptop, a 320 gig drive so I am quadrupling my storage (80 gig - 320 gig)
The even better new is ....... Mother allowed me to order a NEW laptop... Quad core I7; 8 gig ram, ati Raedon 6770 with 1 gig; 160 gig SSD; 500 gig 7200 rpm HD...this baby should just flat out scream.... Watch out CJ I am coming for ya...
Consider getting a laptop cooling stand.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... %20cooling
Spicoli and I bought the exact same (gaming) laptops a week apart. He bought the cooling stand
and I didn't. Mine burned up soon after we went to the BO 1.3 version. His is still going strong!
I think the 1.3 version is more graphics intense so it caused my graphics card to generate a lot more heat
and even though I updated the BIOS which was suppose to kick the fans into high gear earlier than original, it didn't help.
He did tell me about the cooling stands. Wish I had listened.
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I have one already that has the powered fans to push air into the bottom cooling ports
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The overheating part was my fault. Put to much crap in the mod. (Hence the extra cooling required on laptops!!!!!)
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