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Urgent-Laptop Screwed!

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  • maniac886
    maniac886 Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    yes i have replaced the old ram and even taken all the ram out but still no luck
    "He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure,
    He will kill your cat and nail him to the door" :eek:
    Murphys No More Pies Club Member #95
  • theCapt
    theCapt Posts: 223 Forumite
    bingo_bango wrote:
    Right, that means it's passing post. So you should have the option to enter safe mode? Or is this problem not allowing you to?

    If he is getting the Windows XP screen, POST will have been completed.
    Scottish proverb - "Never drink whisky with water and never drink water without whisky"
  • maniac886
    maniac886 Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    it wont even let me enter safe mode
    "He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure,
    He will kill your cat and nail him to the door" :eek:
    Murphys No More Pies Club Member #95
  • theCapt
    theCapt Posts: 223 Forumite
    maniac886 wrote:
    it wont even let me enter safe mode

    how are you trying to access safe mode btw.
    Scottish proverb - "Never drink whisky with water and never drink water without whisky"
  • maniac886
    maniac886 Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    on startup it gives me the options . I select safe mode....it loads the drivers etc and then crashes again
    "He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure,
    He will kill your cat and nail him to the door" :eek:
    Murphys No More Pies Club Member #95
  • bingo_bango
    bingo_bango Posts: 2,594 Forumite
    theCapt wrote:
    If he is getting the Windows XP screen, POST will have been completed.

    Hence my mentioning it had passed post ;)
  • theCapt
    theCapt Posts: 223 Forumite
    okay just thought you may be accessing that menu from booting from the win xp cd.

    Infact just read your orginal post again.

    The fact that it isn't beeping as such on start up means one of two things, the BIOS is broken or nothing is wrong. Have a play around in the BIOS CMOS just to see if it working correctly. If it is, you either have a windows error (can happen on hardware upgrades) or a hard drive failure. If it is he later probelms you will need to get hold of a working optical drive to check the hard drive or to recover/reinstall windows.
    Scottish proverb - "Never drink whisky with water and never drink water without whisky"
  • theCapt
    theCapt Posts: 223 Forumite
    bingo_bango wrote:
    Hence my mentioning it had passed post ;)

    sorry mate, I should have went to spec savers :(
    Scottish proverb - "Never drink whisky with water and never drink water without whisky"
  • bingo_bango
    bingo_bango Posts: 2,594 Forumite
    Is it still not recognising any of your drives?

    Is CMOS set to boot from DVD/CD-ROM?

    You don't have a floppy drive I'm betting?
    theCapt wrote:
    sorry mate, I should have went to spec savers :(

    Lol..np m8......I'm getting annoyed with this lappie now though.
  • maniac886
    maniac886 Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    yes it has recognised the drives but unfortunately the dvd reader doesnt work properly hence i am finding it difficult to load the recovery disk(dvd)

    p.s remind me never to buy a toshiba laptop again...caused me nufin but grief!
    "He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure,
    He will kill your cat and nail him to the door" :eek:
    Murphys No More Pies Club Member #95
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