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press and hold power button five seconds to force crash the system.

get a drive to usb cable, plug the drive into the usb, format the drive from your laptop, then switch drives.

pressing and holding the power input cord at the input jack, if this has any results, would be a way to tell if it's the jack. but holding the power button for 30 seconds should not have any results if the power jack is the problem. if you try the power button trick again and it starts...

it sounds like it could be stuck in sleep mode. if it is, holding the power button for five seconds will force a shutdown. if this works, go into power options to change the power button settings to either shutdown or hibernate. also disable sleep and choose hibernate options instead.

if you have the win7 install media, the simplest thing would be to make a 4 gig partition on your hard drive, copy the install media files to it, and open the partition and click setup. back up all data you don't want destroyed and format(full) the drive during the install process. back up the...

go to the processes tab in task manager to see what processes are eating all the power. what do you see?

sounds like stuck in sleep mode. push and hold power button to kill it. press power to start up. if It starts, change settings to shutdown or hibernate from the power button and the windows start button.

will it start if you pull the battery?

take a flashlight and shine it at the screen very close up. there may be very faint images indicating that the backlight has gone bad. also, if your screen has a latch, sometimes the latch port has a switch that turns the backlight on and off. if no latch, open and close the lid several times...

is the disc in question blank or recorded on?

k. did some checkin around. if you can speed up you 2nd monitor to 144hz then the lag btwn frames goes from 16ms to 6ms copy? also, some people say that if you right click your screen, click personalize, then troubleshoot problems with transparency, you can disable transparency which should...

sometimes you can turn your wifi adapter off and on to re-initialize it. @echo off @ipconfig /release @ipconfig /renew copy the above to notepad and save it to your desktop. I call it "ip reset.bat". make sure that when you save it that you specify "all files" in the save as type window or it...