Re: Help with major laptop problem
- From: "Martik" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:35:07 GMT
"JM" <jm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've got a friend's Compaq Presario 2700 notebook, which began shutting
> down unexpectedly. After several other efforts, I used the Quick Recovery
> CDs (3 of them) to restore the computer. The computer would not make it
> through the restoration process. I tried it with and without the battery,
> plugged in to the AC. Without the battery, it did *seem* to behave
> better. It stayed on long enough to restore, and I was hopeful. But when
> it tried to boot up after the restoration, it BSOD'ed on me. It will not
> get to Windows.
>
> My guess is bad hard drive or a heat problem. I work on computers, mostly
> desktops, and I have tons of spare parts, but no notebook hard drives. So
> I cannot thorougly troubleshoot the problem.
>
I would start with a bootable (floppy or CD) memory test like memtest86 then
test the hard drive similarly with the manufacturers diagnostics.
.
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