IT Help Required.. My laptop died

[scracha]

Allrighty one.
Does anyone have any spare memory that we could borrow and test??? naturally you will get it back....
Anyone?????

Got plenty RAM if required.

[dhunt]

Cheers Sniper, will just try it with the new memory for now and see how that goes.

What happens if u power it up with the memory removed? It should have some memory on the motherboard (probably another 256MB) - non removable so still run.

[Wasp]

i doubt it dhunt, atleast if it was a tosh i know it wouldnt.

but thats a good idea, remove the memory if it gets the same stage of not booting then there ya go.....

[Cibby]

well everyone thats right..

My laptop appears to be working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our lives may all now go on....

My RAM was kaput... dead... totally fucked...


Firstly.. huge thanks for WRT for expertly diagnosing the problem..

and

Secondly to Badcat for providing me with two bran new RAM's for it that fit perfectly..

and lastly

Thanks to everyone else that offered their support and technical skills.. I'm feeling very loved..

Feel the love people!!!!!

[Wasp]

Good to hear cibby, course we luv ya (or is it that sexy racebike of yours )

Fingers crossed it doesnt chew up the new lot, just like with a bike some of the time there is a reason why things happen.

[Cibby]

Good to hear cibby, course we luv ya (or is it that sexy racebike of yours )

Fingers crossed it doesnt chew up the new lot, just like with a bike some of the time there is a reason why things happen.

haha hay watch it!!!! me and my mini-cibby come as a package.. you luvs both of us or none at all!!! hehe

Yeah.. it has been dying for about a month i suspect... probalby all that porn i've been making for postie while he is away.. so all good

[Karma]

So it was the ram, I was right, what's my prize?

[Cibby]

So it was the ram, I was right, what's my prize?

welll atually...

IT JUST FUCKEN DIED AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



so its not the ram.... but the new ram has helped!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANY OTHER IDEAS??? ANYONE??????????????

[Karma]

ok... new ram in there...

I suggest backup important docs, then format and reinstall windows.

[Badcat]

welll atually...

IT JUST FUCKEN DIED AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



so its not the ram.... but the new ram has helped!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANY OTHER IDEAS??? ANYONE??????????????

sorry - i'm a mac boy, so i'm of no real tech help.
K

[Wasp]

oh damn badluck - TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE TO BACKUP YOUR STUFF!!!!

courier it down to me eh? could be a number of things - just the other day i was dealing with a laptop that when you plugged the battery in the light to show the power adaptor was connected came on.... and would only turn on with no dc and a charged battery

A new mainboard will cost you $1k-$1.5k + hour-hour and half labour (hours labour from us is twice your average mechanic - this is why i dont mindputting my bike into the workshop) + GST on average (depends on model make and availability).

Get a new laptop me thinks.....

EDIT: brain wave after post (bwap): just before it normally comes up with the "windows loading screen" tap the F8 key a couple of times and let it sit in whats knowen as the "boot menu" - just let it sit, if it resets its not a windows issue (this wont be stressing the machine either so it wint tell you if its overheating)

How old is the laptop? has it been dropped? are the screen hinges loose? look at all 4 corners for cracks in the plastic (not that any of this will fix it)

[Karma]

format and reinstall... works every time

[Wasp]

only every time windows is to blame (99.99999999999...........%)

some day i'll share some photos of the number of laptops i can touch at any given time (needless to say my desk is very messy and i clean it every second day or so...)

[scracha]

only every time windows is to blame (99.99999999999...........%)

some day i'll share some photos of the number of laptops i can touch at any given time (needless to say my desk is very messy and i clean it every second day or so...)

Or for the umpteenth time get a knoppix boot disk. At least you'll be able to use it to get your files of the NTFS partition onto a pen drive or burn a CD/DVD.

[Wasp]

pah, just buy a usb 2.0 laptop drive bay for $20 and copy em to another comp easy as pie and then you dont have to learn how to do without "that nasty windows virus" (bloody linux nerds......hmph)