Laptop not Booting

When it rains it's pours

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Now it's my wife's laptop.
She has a Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop. No virus' that I know of and has been running fine.
When you start it, the light on the start button comes on. You can hear the cooling fan..but I don't hear the HD doing anything at all and nothing at all is appearing on the screen. I'm thinking the HD is shot. The laptop is about 2 years old. Any thoughts on what the problem might be?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
uPDATE...
The power light comes on...all the led lights come on. I have looked and know there was a battery recall, but this battery does not meet the requirements. I cannot find anything that says whether this particular model will run without a battery or with a bad battery. Currently, my wife has it plugged up and charging just incase the battery is dead.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Laptop should be able to boot without battery. Have you tried that? Bad batteries, in other hand may cause booting problems. If it was only hard drive issues, you should be able to be seeing POST boot process in least.

Actually it should be able to boot without hard drive, it will simply display boot disk not found and stop there. You might want to try that by removing hard drive and trying to boot it with and without battery.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Do you use hibernate mode? I've seen laptops get stuck in hibernation. If so, you might try starting in Safe Mode and shutting off hibernation.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There comes a cable to run laptop with AC or DC. You wont need battery in that case. Get that.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Po'...you're a pain in the ass... ;p 

Remove battery and/or unplug power cable. Press Power button and hold (count to 10 and release). Plug in AC/Battery power cable. Press Power button.

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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Remove battery and/or unplug power cable. Press Power button and hold (count to 10 and release). Plug in AC/Battery power cable. Press Power button.


It worked. I don't know how, but it worked. Thank you. :)
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Yrag! I got one more Puter on the blink.

I know it may be outta your area, but....



...it sure would help quite the baby down if I could get this virus gone. :LOL:
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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Doh failed sleep freeze. I forgot about that possibility. :)
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It worked. I don't know how, but it worked. Thank you.

/me is wise to yrag's tricks....

He actually sneaks into people's homes and causes the errors....

....then comes on here and 'magically' solves them.

There's a medical/mental disorder for that sort of thing.....;p

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
 :LOL: 

Terry's machine is next.....:HOT:

While I was at Po's, I purposely inserted that misspelling in the kid's Leapster....just to irritate you.....   :) 
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I purposely inserted that misspelling in the kid's Leapster....just to irritate you

I actually hadn't noticed it....

Geez you're sly and devious....;)

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
He actually sneaks into people's homes and causes the errors....
....then comes on here and 'magically' solves them.


Wow, I thought I was on to all the tricks but I missed that one. It all makes sense now. Now I understand why yrag sugggested I always keep pie in my household.  ;) 
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
He actually sneaks into people's homes and causes the errors....


And apparently, nothing's sacred...

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Is that before or after his visit?...;)
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Is that before or after his visit?.


After, of course. I'm too technically challenged to hack Etch-A-Sketch.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thank GOD! he can't visit me.


Don't bet on it... yrag is very resourceful. ;p
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Has anyone noticed reply 18? akinggirl posted this in two other threads. Twice in one of them. All at around 1:30 am. 

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

I counted 7 across different forums. Reported for Spam  :thumbsdown: . I would ban  }:) .

Looks to me like its a bot generated crap.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yes, banned.

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

You Rock Jafo  :grin:

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

.... and does no one realize this was posted originally over two years ago? ... or am I missing something here?

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

LS.... we had a spammer .....17 threads across all the Stardock sites.

...and another here with 6 threads.

Busy evening...;)

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

*doc sets reminder to get Jafo a light saber for Christmas.  :thumbsup:

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Make sure it glows. Don't want Jafo to stub toes in the dark. :grin: