Urgent! G73jh does not boot anymore

I was in my class today and I restarted my laptop. I noticed it was rebooting after the shutdown... I tried again and again... Still not booting. Tried removing battery and stuff, pressing 45 seconds on the power button, tried the reset button... Anyway... Many things...

At the store the best they can do it RMA it and I will get it back in 3 weeks.

I'm at college and this is the big work and exams time... Classes will be already done when I will get my laptop back. I'm in a trouble here... Any quick help? I have it right now, gotta do some backups in this desktop (not mine) before RMA'ing it.

Thank you

 

Where is it hanging? Do you see the POST screen with the asus logo?

Try taking out the RAM underneath the bottom access cover one stick at a time.

 

so it is rebooting during boot? During windows boot? Perhaps it is getting a BSOD and automatically restarting.

You can make a copy of the hard drive(s) in the lappie so you will have a copy of your work and then RMA it.

Try booting a live linux CD and see if that works out?

 

I don't see the logo, just.. nothing...

BUT, I just removed the hard drives and NOT it starts well, just that there's no hard drives.... I put them back in, nothing.

Ram does nothing. This only thing that affects the laptop, is the hard drives... With none or with the right one, it starts correctly but with both plugged there's nothing going on, not even the asus logo. The thing is the OS is on the left one I think.

EDIT* ok so far, I tested the drive that causes trouble, with this computer. If I remove all drives and stay with that one, it boots but crashes during windows startup. As a slave drive, it works fine I have access to my data and there's no crash so far. Somebody told my that maybe the boot sector is corrupted and that I should try an enclosure on a usb key

 

So with one hard drive out it will POST?

When you can get it to boot without the drive(s), go into the BIOS and reset to user defaults.

Have you tried the drive in the other bay to rule out the drive itself being the problem?

 

The drive that works, works in both bays. So far everything works except that with the drive with the OS (it's the only drive I have data on lol) doesn't boot on a desktop and prevents the BIOS from even starting on the laptop

EDIT* I got it to work... Couldn't say exactly what I did, but thanks!

One thing... It's slow as hell... Never did this before. Seems ok in other applications (didn't test much) but when I'm writing in the web (like right now) there's about 1 sec delay, it's horrible.

Edit again* My internet (IE and firefox) are slow as hell, really strange. Did a check disk, did cleanups, did many things... Any ideas?

 

That's a pretty strange problem. Without any other information I'd point to a hard drive that's hosing itself as being the culprit. Try running DiskCheckup(found here: PassMark DiskCheckup - SMART hard drive monitoring utility) and see what it says.

If it turns out your drive is bad, get all your critical data off that drive now. Since you have two drives in your system(and if I read your posts correctly there's nothing on that drive) I'd reinstall the recovery partition on your second drive if you made your discs and get your data and programs back in order. If you can RMA your wonky HDD, do so.

 

I must say, how this happened, is that I stressed my computer. It lagged like hell so I just restarted the computer but wasn't booting. The thing is that stressing a computer =/= big crash like this after, so it's strange. Well I'll try that, thanks.

 

These machines are made for stress. They are made to have plenty of headroom. As others above have suggested, I would keep investigating to find out what happened to prevent it from happening again. Or it could be this is a sign of degradation and might need something repaired.

My suggestion, backup all your important stuff on your HDD now, onto a thumbdrive, an external drive or DVDs. Whatever works. It could be your HDD is dying and Asus can send you a replacement or RMA it.

 

Doesn't look too bad and also both drives are about the same everywhere

 

The HDD is probably faulty. Use a disk backup software like Acronis and then restore it onto the other 500GB HDD and get them to just RMA the drive and not the entire laptop.

 

This is exactly what mine did when the 2nd hdd seemed to have failed. Only after some testing, I found that it is an issue with the mobo and NOT the HDD.

I am sorry to say that I seen a RMA in your future.

 

what your describing is EXACTLY what happens when a HDD is on its way out.