Is My Laptop Toast?

theog said:

Have you try the F8 key?

alkie said:

Unfortunately I Have tried F8'ing it but it makes no difference, after a period of time the screen just moves on to the Tosh opening screen, then reverts back to a black screen where you have a blinking cursor on the top left hand corner for a while then it too stop blinking.
Thanks anyway

Yes.

electrotune1200 said:

If you're having no success using any of the suggestions, It sounds like it is a malfunctioning HDD.

One the bright side... it's probably the cheapest component to replace. Do you have your data backed up?

Most of it, it hasn''t been long since I did a fresh install on the pc so anything else I am sure I can pick up again..
Are laptop h/drives reasonably cheap and easy to fit then, (I am in the UK, no surprise there huh?), can you use any type of laptop h/drive?

Problem solved, I let the cycle run its course and I noticed the pc switched itself off, so I restarted and amazingly it booted up, I have no idea what happened or what it did to clear the fault but I am just glad it did.

Thanks for all your help guys!!

alkie said:

Problem solved, I let the cycle run its course and I noticed the pc switched itself off, so I restarted and amazingly it booted up, I have no idea what happened or what it did to clear the fault but I am just glad it did.

Thanks for all your help guys!!

Happy to hear it is working now, I would HIGHLY suggest backing everything up now though. This might be temporary and if it does happen again you don't want to be smacking yourself in the forehead :)