Tams bird Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Turned off laptop last night as normal. Today it's just a black screen. Makes a noise like trying to start but that's it. Any ideas? Nothing too tricky as I'm pc stupid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Winstone Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Turned off laptop last night as normal. Today it's just a black screen. Makes a noise like trying to start but that's it. Any ideas? Nothing too tricky as I'm pc stupid... Sounds like a problem with the hard drive if it is making noises but failing to boot up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Today it's just a black screen. Makes a noise like trying to start but that's it. Racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Bapswent Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Its broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_hmfc Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Its broken. I concur, do go on. :interesting: Anyways you might have already seen it but here's a link just so my post isn't entirely stupid. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tabletandtouch/thread/06a61856-8c1d-41ce-bc27-df116a686d0c/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaBroon Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Sounds like the hard drive is ######! New hard drive is around ?50 but you will lose all your data. A specialist would charge a few hundred to recover the data if you really needed to. Hope not though, try looking to see if the hard drive has dislodged somehow and push it back in again. Didn't see this thread, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moncs Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 If it was the hard drive then the chances are it would still start and allow you to enter the BIOS etc but fail to boot due to not seeing the hard disk. Could be a motherboard issue, hard to tell without seeing it. Whats the make/model and what lights come on when you start it up? Unless the hard disk surface has been damaged it should be easy to get the data back using the right device as I have done it many times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Wiseau Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I had exactly this with a work laptop and pressing Fn/F8 at the same time fixed it - but that was one I use with a projector a lot, so was to do with the display settings and possibly not the same issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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