Laptop not booting past BIOS

johnfash

Hi All,

Really hoping someone can help me out here.

My laptop froze when I was browsing the web, wasn't doing anything stressful, which forced a restart.

Now it will not power past the bios menu. It will switch off and on again every 10 seconds or so. There is a strange ticking noise that I've not heard before which I initially thought was the hard drive.

I'd like to get a second opinion. Whats making me think its not a hard drive is that I cannot access the bios menu.

I thought you could usually enter this regardless of the state of you HDD.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ps am I able to purchase a hard drive from PC world, see if that resolves the issue and if not take it back?

popeye2755

Take the HDD out, then see if you can access the BIOS.

bengalknights

Does it give any beeps?

Jox

I would google the make and model and the problem and see if other people have had the same situation.

I had a similar problem with a lenovo laptop and others advised disabling the trackpad which helped me.

johnfash

Thanks for the feedback.

It doesn't beep, only when I enter F2 to try and get in to the BIOS. From there it restarts itself.