Thread: Laptop not working
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Old 01-01-2011, 23:11   #11
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Re: Laptop not working
Sounds more like a memory fault to me than HDD. IF your laptop has more than one RAM chip in it then one of them is b0rked... Can you reboot and get into the BIOS? If so check the HDD is detected, and check how much RAM the BIOS is detecting, if its less than it should have, then that confirms (or not) my suspicions.

If you can get hold of another laptop and swap the HDDs out that would also help in the diagnostic progress.
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