fiestakidda
Member
Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Darlington (Come On Boro)
User status: Offline
|
I've got a packard bell laptop about 3 years old now and was on it this morning. Left it turned on whilst playing xbox and it went into sleep mode.
Clicked to turn it back on and nothing happened, had to hold the power button to force a shut down. Tried to turn it back on and it doesn't do anything. Black screen, power button glows then it restarts. Makes a noise as if the harddrive is being read but doesn't actually boot.
Have left it for over 30 minutes and it started up finally. It seems to be working fine once windows is running but if I turn it off I have to go through the same thing again, sometimes it does nothing and won't boot at all.
Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?
|
fiestakidda
Member
Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Darlington (Come On Boro)
User status: Offline
|
Anyone?
|
pow
Premium Member
Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
User status: Offline
|
Shut it down, battery out, press adn hold the power button for like a minute, leave the battery out and try again!
|
C2RL R
Member
Registered: 28th Mar 02
Location: Redcliffe, QLD
User status: Offline
|
My old one did something similar except I can't get it to turn on at all. I could easily test it if I could get it apart but it's not obvious how to do it.
|
nathy_87
Member
Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: Škoda Fabia VRS 5J
User status: Offline
|
when it was off, (and wouldnt come back on again) was any lights flashing?
|