HP 6061EA Laptop

aardvaak

I have a HP 6061EA Laptop that the charging light comes on when connected but when I press the button to boot up the button light briefly lights then goes out and the laptop doesn't start.

Can someone please tell me what is wrong and how I solve it?

grumpycrab

Does it start with the battery removed?

aardvaak

grumpycrab wrote: »

Does it start with the battery removed?

No............................the same happens

almillar

Hmm, my first test would be remove battery. Second test - try another battery. Have you had bad, very bad or non-existent battery life on this laptop? If so, it might have been due another battery by now.

aardvaak

almillar wrote: »

Hmm, my first test would be remove battery. Second test - try another battery. Have you had bad, very bad or non-existent battery life on this laptop? If so, it might have been due another battery by now.

But surely if it was the battery (which hasn't shown any problems of not holding charge etc.,) it would start ok on the external charging lead connected

aardvaak

Can anyone please help me?

Sicard

Turn off, take out battery, hold down start button for 1 minute, then put battery back in and try starting.

almillar

But surely if it was the battery (which hasn't shown any problems of not holding charge etc.,) it would start ok on the external charging lead connected

Maybe, maybe not. If you're saying your battery is fine, I would then suspect the charging circuit, or simply a contact somewhere (including power port).

You've said it doesn't start without the battery - some laptops simply don't - is yours one of those - have you tried it before?

Can anyone please help me?

I can't think of anything else other than buying another battery, at least as a test. Hopefully not too expensive on Amazon and the like.

aardvaak

Laurie_Sicard-Askey wrote: »

Turn off, take out battery, hold down start button for 1 minute, then put battery back in and try starting.

Thank you I did that and now it starts - what comes up is a black screen that say HP in the middle and lots of command suggests at the bottom - whatever I go to I just get a loud audio alarm sound

I presume this is some king of bios.

How do I get it to open windows vista?

Edit: Now have it back into windows but not all the keyboard is working

grumpycrab

Sounds like disk/boot sector has gone down. Do you have data (pics, documents, emails) on the laptop you MUST recover? If so I suggest you remove the laptop disk and connect to a working machine (via USB cable or SATA if its a desktop).

OR boot laptop with the Vista Repair disk...

aardvaak

grumpycrab wrote: »

Sounds like disk/boot sector has gone down. Do you have data (pics, documents, emails) on the laptop you MUST recover? If so I suggest you remove the laptop disk and connect to a working machine (via USB cable or SATA if its a desktop).

OR boot laptop with the Vista Repair disk...

I do not have any valuable data on there would it be an idea to recover to the original factory settings (reformat) using the computers backup drive - I do not have a vista setup disk - it just came with the standard pre-installed backup drive

As I said it has now booted up into windows vista