Recent content by Naphtha

Okay, removed the HDD and now I can boot from CD reliably now. I plugged the HDD into a dock and tested it again and it still seems fine, so I reseated most of the wires in the notebook and plugged the HDD back in and everything seems hunky dory. I'll give it until the morning and then I'll...

I'm trying to repair a laptop for a friend and not having much luck, I'm hoping someone here might have some insight. It's a Samsung NP300V5A-A04UK running Win7. I'm told it was occasionally playing up and making clicking noises and failing to get past the BIOS, but that taking the battery out...