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    Laptop fell short distance, only boots to bios.

    I took it apart completely which was required for resetting the battery. After I've put it back together it worked once, but went to the bios again. After a restart the screen stopped working as well. It doesn't even send a signal to a monitor I hooked up through hdmi. I give up, gonna take it...
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    Laptop fell short distance, only boots to bios.

    I've put the hard drive from the laptop into my PC, and the SSD from the PC into the laptop. Neither works. I have no idea what could be the issue right now...
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    Laptop fell short distance, only boots to bios.

    I think I'll try putting this hard drive in my roommate's PC to see what happens. If it works, it should take me past the bios with no problems, right? It's not OEM Windows. Though not sure what about the mobo and other drivers.
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    Laptop fell short distance, only boots to bios.

    As I said in the title. It really wasn't much. Though it was on. I actually had to leave it for about 10 monues, and when I came back, it had some problems. Black screen for a while, Windows telling me something crashed, few second of the YouTube video I had open but without audio... And it was...
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    Buying used laptop, supposedly "clean install"

    Hello. I'm going to buy a used laptop today. Now, the thing is, the current owner (whom I do not know personally) said he will do a clean install. If it'll actually appear to be a fresh Windows, should I just download a few different virus scanners to make sure it's fine, or should I reinstall...