my laptop crapped the bed.

[shadowstalker]

So now I am stuck using my android, not cool. So I have to wait on new laptop so I won't be on much again. Sorry folk.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Does your phone do voice to text easily? :)

You could take advantage of that and dictate a book to us, lol.
Might be really fun for you to be able to post to PA while riding a bike etc.

Teehee!

[GlassSteagallfan]

http://westernmass.craigslist.org/sys/4467368223.html

[bogeyman]

It is usually the hard drive that goings on them, always the problem is over heating as well. Look into repairs or even a very cheap laptop reconditioned ones.

[shadowstalker]

No money to get new laptop,
I put it through avirus killer avg to debug it and it told me to restart so I did,

So now all it does is pull up the blue screan of death in the middle of restart, and keeps recycle the samething over and over,
Blue screen of death/start. Over and over.
None of the safe modes are working,
So after a while I just unplugged it, about an hour I tried again, same old crap.

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Does your phone do voice to text easily? :)

You could take advantage of that and dictate a book to us, lol.
Might be really fun for you to be able to post to PA while riding a bike etc.

Teehee!

Can I really do that with an android, it would save me a ton on spelling corections.

[bogeyman]

It sounds like your Hard drive is the problem. Can you try to reinstall windows completely?

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

not sure if this helps

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=SF13-T0025#
How to enter Setup Utility (F1) or Boot Menu (F12) on a Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 preloaded PC.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/70303-35-boot-menu-reload-windows

http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum/showthread.php?26781-Computer-will-not-boot-normally-having-to-press-F8-or-F12-key-just-to-log-on



try to restore to before update

fyi i turned off windows update after it broke my wireless adapter and created IP conflicts

[ThePythonicCow]

It sounds like your Hard drive is the problem. Can you try to reinstall windows completely?

I don't think we have enough information to know that the laptops hardware is the problem. It could be software, and given that it happened as the result of an attempt at a virus scan, that has some increased likelihood.

Perhaps reinstalling Windows would succeed.

Consider the following suggestions

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/resolving-stop-blue-screen-errors-in-windows-7
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/stoperrors.htm

[Johnny]

So now I am stuck using my android, not cool. So I have to wait on new laptop so I won't be on much again. Sorry folk.

Hi shadowstalker.

Try this:

(1) Take the battery out of the laptop. Open the screen, Push the start button.
Hold it down 5-10 sec. Push it again a couple of times. Put the battery in again (remember to lock it) Start the computer.

(2) Run a CHKDSK http://www.w7forums.com/threads/how-to-use-chkdsk-check-disk.448/
Same method for XP, Vista etc.

This procedure (1) is always good idea if you want a clean machine. (cpu + memory)

Hope it will works for you.

Cheers Johnny

[TigaHawk]

Yes! Tell us what it does! Does it not boot at all? Does it start loading windows then crash? Maybe it's fixable!

[Lifebringer]

Mine did that and it took 2 months to cool down, and my husband a tech one day turned it on, to see if it would work and it did. I quickly transferred my book to another pc to get it saved off this one. I used to keep it on a low table that had only the little laptop resters on the bottom as a ventilation, and day and night was writing book as info came in, but went to sleep a few times, and overused the processor and it got hot. The fan was loud, so he blew it with the canned tech air spray and dust and stuff came out from the suction of the fans drawing it inside. His x-box does that also but he's removed the outer vent cover to keep it cool. I think since I raised it on a metal open rack about 3 inches to keep distance from the table or desk used, gives it a chance to breath cooler air instead of surrounded heat from being too close to the surface it rests on. Even on my desk at school it would do this if I was on it more than 8 hrs to study. First allow the pc to go into safe mode by forcing it off/shutting/pressing off button. When it comes on a prompt to start normally or in safe mode, hopefully in black and white. Go to safe mode, you only have seconds to arrow up to do so, so don't hesitate when the pc gives you an opening to repair it self. Then run your Microsoft program "scan to analyze problems" and after it's done, it will ask you if you want to "restore to another point." Use the restore date suggested or one before it, and you should be okay, but your pc laptop is "in shock from heat" so it must cool down for about a week before you try it again.

If this doesn't work, then chalk it up to learning that you have to put distance from the surface of the table you use, and the pc, or heat build up on the bottom from blocked vents or the fan can't move the hot air fast enough and the pc will go into "saving itself from burn out." Sometimes we forget it's just a mechanical brain, and not so easily restarted as ours when we get too hot under the collar. LOL

I've had this problem before, and was pricing another laptop, when hubby restarted in safe as soon as it cooled off couple of days, possibly week or two. I was so pissed because my books were on it, that I just couldn't think about all that work I had done, and had to restart the whole book over based upon the same notes of info and time I got them. I dated the information as it came in for Season of the Witnesses book and I was able to find all the parts in several spirals, I had around at the time. Then after two or three weeks of rewrite, up pops the laptop repaired. The system restore is what did it. Whatever got in, is still in there, and a restore puts the pc back at a time when it WAS NOT INSIDE AND ERASES WHATEVER YOU HAD AFTER THE RESTORE POINT. It's possible that there's a stinker inside, so make sure all your stuff you had is either redownloaded w/out virus/malware that gave you blue screen as a protection against it.

Try AVG trial for 30 days and quarantine it. You don't have to buy it if you can't afford it right now, but...you'll get the little bugger and have repairs as well as quarantine to keep it out of your daily seeking.

Godspeed on the restore of your laptop/communication device.

[Operator]

There are 3 things I would try:

1. See if you have any diagnostic software available during startup to test the hardware
2. If you have any startup CD available that can run standalone (like windows installation or Ubuntu) start it
with that and see if it keeps running. If it is an 'overheating' problem the laptop will stop too after a while.
3. Start it and enter bios setup, see if it keeps running for a while (same reason as 2.)

There are more things to look for but that requires more PC repair skills.

1. In some laptops the harddisk is easily accessible/removable by one of the 'doors' on the bottom.
If you remove it it can be tested with an IDE/SATA tool connected to a working PC ...
2. The memory modules are also accessible by one of those 'doors'. Perhaps exchange them with
some of a working laptop (you need to check the type for compatibility though!).

What is the exact brand/type of laptop?

[Pam]

Do you have a library nearby? They have computers to use. Not perfect but a temporary measure.

[Operator]

Mine did that and it took 2 months to cool down, and my husband a tech one day turned it on, to see if it would work and it did.

Strange things like that happen from time to time.
I had a laptop that appeared to be completely dead. No sign of life at all. I concluded that the motherboard was probably dead,
no salvation possible ... ;)

After a couple of months I took it out of the pile to strip all the reusable parts (like hard-disk, memory and optical drive) I for some
reason hooked it up first and it miraculously booted straight into windows. The only remaining problem seems to be the battery
keeping the CMOS memory settings alive.

[shadowstalker]

Took me 4 hours but i finally got it to restore and for now work , what is a good free antivirus program and pleas don't say avast cuz it mist the malware that screwed me up.

[bogeyman]

It sounds like your Hard drive is the problem. Can you try to reinstall windows completely?

I don't think we have enough information to know that the laptops hardware is the problem. It could be software, and given that it happened as the result of an attempt at a virus scan, that has some increased likelihood.

Perhaps reinstalling Windows would succeed.

Consider the following suggestions

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/resolving-stop-blue-screen-errors-in-windows-7
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/stoperrors.htm


My Computer had the same problem kept having a blue screen of death and rebooting. I asked a tech guy and he told me it was the HDD, he asked how old my computer was I told him, and he say he HDD is the problem.

[ThePythonicCow]

My Computer had the same problem kept having a blue screen of death and rebooting. I asked a tech guy and he told me it was the HDD, he asked how old my computer was I told him, and he say he HDD is the problem.
I'm a tech guy too :).

I suspect what your tech guy said is not solid info ... there are more ways than that to get that symptom.

[Johnny]

Took me 4 hours but i finally got it to restore and for now work , what is a good free antivirus program and pleas don't say avast cuz it mist the malware that screwed me up.

Good news !!!

Can you please tell us, why you think it was a malware. You can run the program Malwarebytes on a computer which have 15-20 malwares, whiteout it has harmed the computer. (apparently)

Many people think, that because they have an antivirus program no harm can be done, and yes we will be warned, if the program knows the virus, but they will not know it before it has been reported to them, and the so called hackers are not going to warn them. :) So if you develops a virus and put it out, many computers will be infected before an antivirus program's database with a countermove is made.

Johnny

[Johnny]

I suspect what your tech guy said is not solid info ... there are more ways than that to get that symptom.

One of my siblings made ​​a panic call to me about six months ago. Her computer would not boot. she had tried countless times. it just came with a black screen and said some strange noises.
I told her what she should do (as described in my above post) and viola so it worked. After that time, she has finally accredited me as a genius ( just kidding :) )

BTW running a system restart point is the last thing you need to do IMO. If you had a slow Windows machine before it becomes even more slow. There will be moved around on the critical system files and sometimes they will often become fragmented.

Johnny

[Darren Haynes]

Hey ShadowStalker - you thread title definitely caught me eye! Until now I was not familiar with the "term crapped the bed" as something dying, so I came in literally thinking that something "came out of" your laptop. What that something could be is what drawed me in. Yep its getting late and I getting tired - hehe.

Think about giving Linux a shot. You can install Ubuntu on a partition of your hard drive, and then when you turn on your computer you have the option to boot as Ubuntu or as Windows. There is 1 program that I use that makes me use Windows, but besides that, I use Linux/Ubuntu 95% of the time. Much better IMHO, and its free, and you don't have to worry about anti-virus software.

[shadowstalker]

Hey ShadowStalker - you thread title definitely caught me eye! Until now I was not familiar with the "term crapped the bed" as something dying, so I came in literally thinking that something "came out of" your laptop. What that something could be is what drawed me in. Yep its getting late and I getting tired - hehe.

Think about giving Linux a shot. You can install Ubuntu on a partition of your hard drive, and then when you turn on your computer you have the option to boot as Ubuntu or as Windows. There is 1 program that I use that makes me use Windows, but besides that, I use Linux/Ubuntu 95% of the time. Much better IMHO, and its free, and you don't have to worry about anti-virus software.
Now that's kewl i like that I will try that.