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Hi all thanks for any help I put an old laptop hard drive into an external case. When I plug it into a different computer, it doesn't appear in windows explorer... but it does appear in device manager and when I go to disk management I get a popup saying" You must initialize a disk before...

I went to a local computer shop and they think its the video card, which is mounted on to the mother board. Am I screwed? No way to replace right? Picture attached View: https://imgur.com/a/h9IIWse

Thank you for the response. It was working "fine" with no battery in for a long time, only charger. Then the other day it reset when I wasn't at my desk and I came back to the fan turning on and off for about 3 secs. Now, despite the battery doesn't charge, it only turns on with the battery...

Basically, from a previuse post, laptop wouldn't turn on, or if it did, fans would get loud and quiet and repeat. I didn't have the battery in, just plugged in. Now that I have left the battery in (blue flashing light means its not charging), the lap top is actually booting, I can tell- windows...

Trying to find a way of resetting bios without comp starting... found these symbols and this MSI link (scroll down to the bottom of the link), but on my laptop, the holes are just for screws? View: https://imgur.com/a/z3hXD1T (2 pictures)...

update: after sitting with the battery on, and plugged in, I turned it on and its making a little bit more processing noise, and even the DVD drive opened... the little orange light under the symbol to show something is processing is blinking but nothing else.... Hey thanks for the reply...

Older laptop, also, sometimes when I boot, it simply lights the power button up with no other noises. This appears to revert back to the fan on/off situation when I unplug it from power vs turning it off. No battery in. update: after sitting with the battery on, and plugged in, I turned it on...