Laptop Not booting up

rfowler

Hi All,

I turned on my laptop on the weekend and nothing the screen is blank but i can get into bios and thats it nothing happens, I don't want to format it as it has lots of photo and documents.

Anyone know away around?

robmar0se

I'll sart this off, there will be a lot of suggestions, most of which will be helpful. But first more info would help, Whats the make model and what OS do you have?

A couple of things to try:

1) Remove battery and power lead, depress and hold the start button for 10-15 seconds to remove any static; try rebooting with power lead attached (no battery).

2) Try going into safe mode (F8 after the bios screen).

3) Attach an external monitor to eliminate a graphics issue.

4) Maybe an issue with the hdd, so depending how (2) goes may need to remove it and test on another PC. but lets see how 1-3 go first.

Good luck

macman

Do you not have a back up of your critical data?