Re: Laptop not booting

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From: Dusko Savatovic (savatovic.removespam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:35:17 +0200

Check:
1. that floppy is not in floppy drive
2. that CD is not in CD drive
3. that USB stick is not connected.
4. go to BIOS setup (probably F10) and check that hard disk is recognized.
Also check boot order that the system boots from hard disk.
5. Remove batery from laptop and disconnect it from mains. leave it like
that for 5 minutes. Then, replace batery and reconnect to mains. Power on
the laptop.

If all above fails, there may be some hardware problem.

Dusko Savatovic

"Geoff Folland" <geofffolland@studentlife.org> wrote in message
news:1bf8701c451e4$3179dd80$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> My sister-in-law is visiting from Colorado with a new HP
> laptop. Since she arrived she has not been able to boot
> it up. When the laptop is turned on it goes to the setup
> screen with the options [esc] to go to set up and F10 and
> F12 for whatever. But the computer doesn't respond to any
> of these commands.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> She doesn't have a recovery disk here. Is there some way
> I can dummy one up? Is that what I need?
>
> Geoff

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