Laptop fell short distance, only boots to bios.

[Kogure]

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 really slow. So I restarted it, and now it only boots to bios aftse a while on the starting MSI screen. The SATA section of the bios does say I have a 750 GB Hitachi drive, and other sections tell me about my memory and CPU.

I opened it to make sure everything is plugged in properly, but it hasn't helped. The laptop is also as hot as if I were running a video game, and the fan is on max speed. All while on the bios screen.

The drive led also lights up a few times during startup.

No errors or anything like that.

I believe the model is MSI GE60.

 

[Dunlop0078]

I would pull out the hard drive then put it back making sure it was firmly in place, I have seen a poorly connected hard drive do all sorts of weird things.

 

[jimmysmitty]

When the laptop is in the BIOS it doesn't have the same power saving features as when in Windows so the CPU is probably running at full speed.

As for your issue, if reseating the HDD does not fix the issue then it sounds like the HDD might have sustained damage due to the drop. Especially since it was on and the HDD was probably spinning when dropped. If you get nothing I highly suggest taking to to a professional to see if any data can be recovered.

 

[Kogure]

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.

 

[Kogure]

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...

 

[jsmithepa]

INeither works

Well they won't boot each other OS all the way because of different drivers, but at least does it TRY to boot, without automatically going to BIOS? You may want to consult manual and reset CMOS to factory.

 

[Kogure]

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 to some repair place tomorrow.