Boot Failure

Hello, My Asus S550C laptop is having trouble getting to POST and booting. The hard drive, I have noticed, will power up and then wind down and remain doing nothing, as will the laptop which will continue to run a black, backlit screen, as well as all fans, lights, and the CD drive, but no hard...

Hello Tom's Hardware Community! I've recently gotten a used Acer E1-532P-4471 (Pentium) Laptop, as the old owners gave it to me because it didn't work. Being the "Computer Person" I am, I set off to try and fix it. I started by plugging it in and trying to boot. It wouldn't get past the post...

Notebook: Acer Aspire 5542-5241 So, its old, but it has been a local and faithfull computer. The battery doesn't work or just last for 15min. I just arrived to my office, plugged the AC brick to the power outlet. Get the laptop out of the backpack, put it on the table. Power on. Plugged in usb...

hello, when i press the power button on my laptop the fans momentarily starts to run then they go off and the screen remains blank. After 5-10 seconds the HDD led starts blinking and the other 2 LED lights have solid light. whats wrong with my laptop?

MSI GP60 2PE Leopard running Win 10. Core i7 @ 2.6. Nvidia GeForce 840M. 8 GB RAM. 750 GB Western Digital HDD. I was using my laptop as usual, then left for literally 5 minutes to help my mom with laundry. When I came back, the power was off. I just assumed it ran out of battery, so I plugged...

My Acer 5742z laptop (usually) will not boot with the internal CD/DVD drive plugged in. 3 out of 4 times it will reach the acer splash screen and then hard reboot (in a loop). When I slide the SATA CD/DVD drive out it runs through startup with no issue. SOMETIMES it will turn on with the...

Randomly, for the first time, on my lenovo 710s Plus(13inch) I got the Blue Screen of Death error DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION and apparently this issue occurs because the iastor.sys driver, is not compatible with Windows 10. So I changed the storage controller from Intel Rapid Storage sata controller...

I recently had a 1 year old laptop (below are the specs), it was turned on whole day and I forgot to turn it off when I went to sleep. When I woke up, i found my PC turned off (already forgot what happened on when I turned it on) and in blue screen when I tried to turn it on. SPEC...

I have a Toshiba laptop C655D-S5126 I have taking the battery out and held the power button for 30 second and it still will not come on, I need help please?

vostro 3550 i3 dell laptop starting coming beep sound in 3 times how to resolve

I have an HP Pavilion dv6 3033-sa with a broken battery and it won't boot up. The problem persisted for at least 6 months now. Before it would boot up after reseating the ram or holding the power button for a minute. After a while, we sent it to the repair shop but they said that the problem...

When I first switched on my Satellite Pro Toshiba laptop after returning from a weeks holiday ,after signing in the screen went black with the message "Boot failure : a proper digital signature was not found "I have followed all instructions and entered the Bios set up facility but when I get...

Omg someone please help me! I have a hp stream 11 and I tried to reset it but it failed and when i logged back onto my computer, after entering my password, it said "preparing windows" and after comes a black screen with a moving cursor. :/

I have a Dell Inspirion 17 5748, I have made sure that I have the correct memory DDR3L 1600mhz that matches the max memory that can be installed in the laptop. I even verified with the manufaturer that the memory is set to work with the laptop. Memory is 8gb Patriot Viper 1.35v. BUt when I...

It was not start

I press power button it starts to come for about 3 - 5 seconds then shuts off again.

Hi! Can anyone help me? We tried to reset our toshiba satellite click 10 however after the reset and restart, i only got black screen with an error message no bootable device -- please restart system. Please help.. Thank you..

Hello everyone, I have purchased Toshiba core i7, Model number S55T-B5239 before few months ago and it suddenly stopped working. I had took it to the repair station in my hometown and they even couldn't find the fault, they're suppected a BIOS failure and unfortunately they can't flash the...

So my macbook from 2010 stopped recognising my 128gb samsung 830 series SSD. I plugged it into my desktop computer and it sees it just fine so the SSD appears to be okay. I put it back in my macbook and tried booting it dozens of times, a couple of times it actually saw the SSD and booted into...

This didn't get too much attention in the SSD category so I thought I might repost this here. Please let me know if that's not allowed. Hi, Laptop: ASUS TP550LJ Transformer Book About a few months ago, I swapped out the 1 TB HDD in my laptop for a 250 GB Sandisk SSD. Then I installed a fresh...