Free laptop.

**Crazy Steve** · 25th April 2008, 20:44

Thats right Free laptop...

Charger/Batt and leather carrying case...

Use to go really good...Now the fckin thing won't start...

If anyone can retrive my photos and docs they can have the lot...

I will even pay them $$$$

And delivery it....And buy beer...Or drugs...

Please....Some Geek HELP!!!

Crazy Steve..

**Boob Johnson** · 25th April 2008, 20:48

Details ma man! What kind of laptop? What exactly is it doing? ie: what is showing on the screen? All is not lost just yet Steve so don't panic mate. One possibility & easy fix can be swap out the RAM for known working modules. That way you know what the issue is if it can boot up with dif RAM. Failing that & anything else you can open her up, remove the HDD & hook it up to another PC/laptop & get your data that way

**xwhatsit** · 25th April 2008, 21:07

Originally Posted by Crazy Steve

Thats right Free laptop...

Charger/Batt and leather carrying case...

Use to go really good...Now the fckin thing won't start...

If anyone can retrive my photos and docs they can have the lot...

I will even pay them $$$$

And delivery it....And buy beer...Or drugs...

Please....Some Geek HELP!!!

Crazy Steve..

Shit, tell geoffm -- he's got a homebuilt dyno, and he needs a laptop to run it.

Has it got a serial port?

**Headbanger** · 25th April 2008, 21:19

Wait.

If its your Hard drive that has failed then under no circumstances do you want to be installing ram and powering the sucker up,. each time you give her juice you maybe destroying your pics and data.

Get a screwdrivers, take off the bottom panel and locate the hard drive, remove, then plug her into a desktop PC, copy over all the data.

**Crazy Steve** · 25th April 2008, 21:25

Originally Posted by Boob Johnson

Details ma man! What kind of laptop? What exactly is it doing? ie: what is showing on the screen? All is not lost just yet Steve so don't panic mate. One possibility & easy fix can be swap out the RAM for known working modules. That way you know what the issue is if it can boot up with dif RAM. Failing that & anything else you can open her up, remove the HDD & hook it up to another PC/laptop & get your data that way

Its an old one...2000 Pc company jobby..L8400 notebook

It starts but the fan keeps going and the screen won't turn on..

I wanna pull it to bits but dont wanna lose photos/Doc...FCk!1

Crazy Steve..

**Crazy Steve** · 25th April 2008, 21:27

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

Shit, tell geoffm -- he's got a homebuilt dyno, and he needs a laptop to run it.

Has it got a serial port?

Fck I dunno ? ?

If I knew whata a serial port wouldnt be driving trucks...

Crazy Steve

**Crazy Steve** · 25th April 2008, 21:29

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Wait.

If its your Hard drive that has failed then under no circumstances do you want to be installing ram and powering the sucker up,. each time you give her juice you maybe destroying your pics and data.

Get a screwdrivers, take off the bottom panel and locate the hard drive, remove, then plug her into a desktop PC, copy over all the data.

I like this idea....But wait wont I need cables...and can I plug into another laptop??

Crazy Steve..

**Matt_TG** · 25th April 2008, 21:39

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Wait.

If its your Hard drive that has failed then under no circumstances do you want to be installing ram and powering the sucker up,. each time you give her juice you maybe destroying your pics and data.

Get a screwdrivers, take off the bottom panel and locate the hard drive, remove, then plug her into a desktop PC, copy over all the data.

Laptops hard drives don't usually fit onto desktop PC IDE or Sata cables. IMHO you don't eff up a hard drive by messing with RAM, as Boob said sometimes faulty RAM can prevent starting up, however....

If it sounds like it starts but the screen doesn't turn on, then plug another monitor into it - should have a stardard vga socket at the back. Maybe its just the display that's rooted.

If that doesn't help, and you do get some white writing on the screen during startup try pressing DELETE during start up. Keep pressing it continually, see if it gets to the BIOS screen.

If it does, then find the part where you can specify what boots up first, and make your CD the first thing to boot from.

Put your Windows CD in and reboot it. Follow your nose and see if you can see what needs doing.

If that doesn't help, look for the chance to press R to get into the recovery console.

In there - white text on a black screen type FIXMBR then enter. This will repair the master boot record.

Take the cd out and reboot. Press delete again and get into BIOS and change the hard drive to the first thing it boots from.

If that doesn't work post up again

**Headbanger** · 25th April 2008, 21:46

Originally Posted by Matt_TG

Laptops hard drives don't usually fit onto desktop PC IDE or Sata cables. IMHO you don't eff up a hard drive by messing with RAM, as Boob said sometimes faulty RAM can prevent starting up, however....

Can I be blunt?

Thats some shit advice.

Recover the data first, Then worry about getting the laptop running, And its no issue plugging a Laptop hard drive into a desktop, or into another laptop. Whether that's through the use of adaptors or external enclosures.

**Crazy Steve** · 25th April 2008, 21:52

Originally Posted by Matt_TG

Laptops hard drives don't usually fit onto desktop PC IDE or Sata cables. IMHO you don't eff up a hard drive by messing with RAM, as Boob said sometimes faulty RAM can prevent starting up, however....

If it sounds like it starts but the screen doesn't turn on, then plug another monitor into it - should have a stardard vga socket at the back. Maybe its just the display that's rooted.

If that doesn't help, and you do get some white writing on the screen during startup try pressing DELETE during start up. Keep pressing it continually, see if it gets to the BIOS screen.

If it does, then find the part where you can specify what boots up first, and make your CD the first thing to boot from.

Put your Windows CD in and reboot it. Follow your nose and see if you can see what needs doing.

If that doesn't help, look for the chance to press R to get into the recovery console.

In there - white text on a black screen type FIXMBR then enter. This will repair the master boot record.

Take the cd out and reboot. Press delete again and get into BIOS and change the hard drive to the first thing it boots from.

If that doesn't work post up again

Plugged it into Tv...Would that work...Started again..

But fan just keeps going and wont stop??

No display....No white letters..

Arrrrghh

Crazy Steve..

**Matt_TG** · 25th April 2008, 21:56

No worries in being blunt HB, I was just looking for some things Steve could look at without opening up things and getting adapters. You are dead right to see what you can do to get important data off a HDD asap, maybe Steve hasn't the means to at the moment.

I've recovered data by way of getting computers up and running on many occasions, no harm in seeing if it is just the display, and changing the boot record won't corupt data that's already on a hard drive.

Steve, have you got another computer monitor? Try that not a TV.

Hope all gets sorted for ya.

**scracha** · 25th April 2008, 21:59

Originally Posted by Crazy Steve

Its an old one...2000 Pc company jobby..L8400 notebook

It starts but the fan keeps going and the screen won't turn on..

I wanna pull it to bits but dont wanna lose photos/Doc...FCk!1

Crazy Steve..

If you don't know what you're doing and assuming it's undamaged then a local geek should be able to get all the gay porn of your hard drive for less than 50 bucks.

**Headbanger** · 25th April 2008, 22:00

Yes, There is potential harm in powering up the computer.

If you think otherwise then you need to refrain from giving advice and do some hard and fast learning about hard drives and they way they can fail.

From his description (no words at all on screen) I don't think its the hard drive,But the steps are still the same, Recover the data, Do not power up the PC.