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~AlicGinnis~
Hi,
A neighbor dropped off her daughter's laptop this afternoon, "It won't
boot."
It has XP home on it.
When you turn it on it stops at the Windows splash screen.
I reseated, and cleaned the contacts of the memory and hard drive.
Tried safe mode, and last known good. Same thing. It starts to
load and then stops.
I set it to boot fm the optical first and tried a Ubunto linux disk.
It loads for about 20 seconds and then stops.
She brought the recovery disk, so I tried that and it
loads the ram disk and then stops.
So, in general it goes through about 15 seconds of a load
and then stops. The screen is working ok because i have no
trouble getting into the bios. There's not many settings in
there so I doubt there is an issue in that neck of the woods.
Its a Toshiba Satallite with one 512 mb sodimm clocked at 533MHZ in it.
I tried the sodimm in the other slot, but the same thing happened.
AS soon as the windows splash screen comes up, it stops.
I don't have a known good 533MHZ sodimm so i am unable to swap
out the memory. Or the hard drive either, 160GB SATA WD.
Any ideas much appreciated.
Al
ps: the charging system works, and the battery holds a charge.
A neighbor dropped off her daughter's laptop this afternoon, "It won't
boot."
It has XP home on it.
When you turn it on it stops at the Windows splash screen.
I reseated, and cleaned the contacts of the memory and hard drive.
Tried safe mode, and last known good. Same thing. It starts to
load and then stops.
I set it to boot fm the optical first and tried a Ubunto linux disk.
It loads for about 20 seconds and then stops.
She brought the recovery disk, so I tried that and it
loads the ram disk and then stops.
So, in general it goes through about 15 seconds of a load
and then stops. The screen is working ok because i have no
trouble getting into the bios. There's not many settings in
there so I doubt there is an issue in that neck of the woods.
Its a Toshiba Satallite with one 512 mb sodimm clocked at 533MHZ in it.
I tried the sodimm in the other slot, but the same thing happened.
AS soon as the windows splash screen comes up, it stops.
I don't have a known good 533MHZ sodimm so i am unable to swap
out the memory. Or the hard drive either, 160GB SATA WD.
Any ideas much appreciated.
Al
ps: the charging system works, and the battery holds a charge.