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Sudden laptop crash and bootloop
I was using my laptop writing a small C# program for a college assignment and once i was finished i saved my work, went over to the college forum to post up the file and suddenly the whole laptop stopped responding. This laptop is NOT the computer that i have written down in the specs section of my profile, this is a completely different laptop.
Either way, the mouse stopped working, so i tried ctrl+alt+del, that didn't prompt anything on screen either. Then i removed the charger and came to the conclusion that the screen was frozen completely because the charging icon didn't disappear. Then I made the stupid decision of removing the battery before I tried holding the power button for more than 30 seconds. After removing the battery, the screen stayed on, still frozen. At this point the fan was going crazy and the laptop was heating up.
I wasn't using much RAM, no games or anything were open, it was just Chrome and Notepad++ and then suddenly this happens. Either way, when i start up again i see the BIOS password prompt and then the BIOS startup disappears and the screen stays black. This is as far as i can get.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before? I don't want to try tweaking anything before actually knowing what i'm doing in case i just brick the whole laptop.
I don't have the specs for the laptop, seeing as i can't actually start it up to check, but it's running Windows 7 home premium, and it's a Samsung build. I don't know much else about it because I don't really use it that much.
Thanks in advance.