laptop gone kerpunk

FirstTimer4Me

my laptop has just died

i've got the battery lead connected but when i try and switch it on i just get the orange battery light flickering then goes off nothing happens with the laptop

any ideas please?

dehaani

Tried disconnecting the power, then taking the battery out for a few seconds?

FirstTimer4Me

dehaani wrote: »

Tried disconnecting the power, then taking the battery out for a few seconds?

no not sure how to

btw it's this http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/653/860/-/3590477/Hewlett-Packard-530-Celeron-M-1-86GHz-512MB-80GB-15-4-WXGA-DVD-SM-Vista-Home-Basic-Laptop-Notebook/Product.html?searchtype=genre

FirstTimer4Me

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

no not sure how to

ok figured it out and taken it out now

FirstTimer4Me

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

ok figured it out and taken it out now

ok took battery out and put it back but nothing happens when i try and switch it on only the orange battery light flickers for a few seconds then goes off

dehaani

The power cable was disconnected when you took the battery out?

Then you could try powering it up with just the cable and no battery.

You should probably phone the manufacturer for assistance.

FirstTimer4Me

dehaani wrote: »

The power cable was disconnected when you took the battery out?

yes

dehaani wrote: »

Then you could try powering it up with just the cable and no battery.

I tried that but nothing happens i've put the battery back in and it booted up to a window which said

windows failed to start insert your windows installation disc

i don't have one the machine boots up but then just shuts down during boot up

dehaani wrote: »

You should probably phone the manufacturer for assistance.

the laptop is 2 years old

dehaani

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

I tried that but nothing happens i've put the battery back in and it booted up to a window which said

windows failed to start insert your windows installation disc

That's progress! It's powering up. So check your manual or HP support site and find out how to invoke your recovery function; it should have a recovery partition.

Hopefully you'll be able to recovery the system but if you do then you'll lose any information that is stored on it.

FirstTimer4Me

dehaani wrote: »

That's progress! It's powering up. So check your manual or HP support site and find out how to invoke your recovery function; it should have a recovery partition.

Hopefully you'll be able to recovery the system but if you do then you'll lose any information that is stored on it.

i more than useless with technology so wouldn't know where to begin i'll have to pop to pcworld tomorrow

ta for the help tho

FirstTimer4Me

dehaani wrote: »

It's powering up

forgot to say it shuts down as soon as it powers up tho

dehaani

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

i'll have to pop to pcworld tomorrow

PC World will charge you just to press a button or two as the computer powers up then click the mouse 4 or 5 times.

I would urge you to check HP's site. It's really not difficult at all.

I used to do these recoveries for Currys customers every day.