Recent content by tob_ewalker

Yep, 99% sure it's the battery. Didn't realise but HP have a built in battery diagnostic, so I ran that and it failed. Many thanks

Hello all, me again Got an HP laptop in with me at the moment. When it's plugged in, there's no problem at all. Light comes on (orange to indicate charging), laptop can be powered on and runs OK. However, over the battery indicator, it says "not charging" and the battery percentage slowly...

Hi there, Having a bit of an issue. Just installed am SSD in an HP Probook 4730s laptop (old HDD failed). I have flashed the BIOS to the most recent version, and disabled all the boot methods that don't apply, but for some reason, I get an odd issue. The BIOS screen loads, then goes to a battery...

Plan was to install the OS from the disc onto the HDD. Should still get a screen up though, surely. I've put a formatted HDD in ready to install OS, but it doesn't even let me open the disc drive.

Hello, I have a 2009 Macbook Pro 13" 2.13GHz Intel Duo laptop, and, well, it's buggered. When I got it, it didn't have a hard drive in, so I have put in a working one I had lying about, formatted with the exFAT format. I put the HDD in the macbook, plug it in (think the battery is shot) and the...