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jimfuk
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Won't Boot !
      #389342 - Mon Mar 24 2008 08:12 PM

Kids! - don't we just love-em??!!
My son somehow managed to take the battery out of his Vista O/S Tosh Laptop while it was in hibernation. Now it refuses to boot at all.
On pressing the on button the battery, mains etc LED's light up, it then does a keyboard check (shown by the LED's for num lock etc flashing on) - and then nothing! The LED for the HDD doesn't come on or blink and the screen stays totally blank. You can't enter Safe Mode because it never even starts to load the O/S.
As far as I can tell the HDD isn't running at all.
Any ideas guys? (Apart from thumping him of course!)
Jim.

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Re: Won't Boot ! [Re: jimfuk]
      #389350 - Mon Mar 24 2008 09:01 PM

If it's not detecting the hard drive something would come on the screen and tell you that.

Have you got a Vista DVD?

Try pressing the F2 and Del keys as soon as it starts up to see if you can enter the BIOS.

Set it to boot from the DVD and go for the repair option.

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