Laptop refuses to boot.

• Shotgun

  23 Feb 08, 00:47

  Okay, I nearly had the panic of the lifetime. My laptop (Vista) refused to boot for unknown reasons. 

  I press the power button, i see the POST screen for a while, and as soon as its done, it shuts down on its own.  I checked the BIOS, and it could detect my HDD fine ( though i still suspect it.). 

  Checked with a friend, and he said it could be my laptop  mobo itself.

  
  Saw SGForums, and noticed the Vista bug.  So it could be Vista preventing the boot as well.  ( Any clearer symptoms of this?)

   

  I'm this |--| close to ordering a new laptop, but im almost dead broke.. argh.

• ceecookie

  23 Feb 08, 01:02

  is the battery charged?

• Shotgun

  23 Feb 08, 01:08

  Yes, its charged. Not fully but more than 3/4.

   

  Gonna try removing the battery n run on AC.  Might be a shorted battery.

• ndmmxiaomayi

  23 Feb 08, 01:21

  I can't tell. If you have the Vista installation disc, boot up to it, choose restore previous point, that's if you have system restore turned on.

  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial142.html

• Shotgun

  23 Feb 08, 08:22

  Will try that once i get into office on monday, meantime, im gon a try boot a linux and see if it crashes on me as well.

• Shotgun

  23 Feb 08, 19:53

  Sigh.. cant even boot properly. Sometimes i dun even see the POST screen already switch off itself liao..

• ndmmxiaomayi

  24 Feb 08, 13:57

  Can't see POST... not even the laptop brand logo?

• Shotgun

  24 Feb 08, 19:07

  Nope, not even the laptop brand logo. Its quite dependent on luck actually. Sometimes I see POST, sometimes I don't and its turns off itself. I seriously suspect that the hardware has reached the end of its lifespan.  What are the parts I can strip out of a laptop besides the RAM and HDD?

• kenn3th

  24 Feb 08, 19:21

  Warranty?

  I dont think it has reached it's life span yet.

• dumbdumb!

  24 Feb 08, 19:30

  Originally posted by Shotgun:

  Okay, I nearly had the panic of the lifetime. My laptop (Vista) refused to boot for unknown reasons. 

  I press the power button, i see the POST screen for a while, and as soon as its done, it shuts down on its own.  I checked the BIOS, and it could detect my HDD fine ( though i still suspect it.). 

  Checked with a friend, and he said it could be my laptop  mobo itself.

  
  Saw SGForums, and noticed the Vista bug.  So it could be Vista preventing the boot as well.  ( Any clearer symptoms of this?)

   

  I'm this |--| close to ordering a new laptop, but im almost dead broke.. argh.

  sounds abit like my problem with my computer.. =/

• Shotgun

  24 Feb 08, 20:30

  Its out of warranty since its about 3 years old.  There is no way I can attempt a system restore for now, so I removed the harddrive, backed up the stuff in it, and gonna try to reformat it off my other computer.   See how it goes.