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Tried Taking Apart My Laptop, Now Windows Won't boot
This afternoon, I decided to take apart my laptop to see how much dust was in it because it freezes whenever I would do CPU or GPU heavy stuff. About half way through, my dad convinced me that it didn't look like there was enough dust and crap inside to worry about and convinced me to put it back together. I got more or less finished reassembling everything but I ended up with an extra screw
The first couple of times that I rebooted, I would just get a black screen. After that, the boot screen would appear and then I'd get the option to resume or go into my configurations(F1 or F10). I went in and scanned my HDD and memory for any errors, came up completely clean. Rebooted, got the same 2 options but decided to go ahead and resume normal boot up. Another screen showed up because there seemed to be a problem with my windows installation, told me to load up some windows recovery files to try and fix the issue or resume normal boot up. If I try to get it to load the recovery files, it just locks up while trying to do so. If I resume, I get a blue screen. A line from the blue screen reads "stop: 0x0000000a (0x00000034, 0x00000001, 0x81c85028"
My system is an HP Pavilion DV6700, came with Vista but upgraded to W7 Pro about a year ago.
Any ideas?
UPDATE: Good news, my system is working normally. All I did was remove the CMOS battery and re seated one of the RAM chips. That seems to have worked. I'll be back if I have anymore problems.
Last edited by Zepher13; 29 Dec 2010 at 01:27. Reason: Situation Solved