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    Error 0x000000f

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by kangu, Jan 17, 2012.

  1. kangu

    kangu Notebook Consultant

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    Hi.

    I have had my SS7 for about 2 months now and it had been acting weird for the past 3 weeks. I had to format it 3 times because it would freeze at startup and I couldn't do anything about it.

    Just now, I was using it normally then put it to sleep. I woke it up by pressing the power button and it gave me the "cannot start up" with the error 0x000000f.

    Any ideas how this came about?
     
    kangu, Jan 17, 2012
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    There's a possible suggestion here (and Google will give you more) but they relate to Vista.

    Windows 7 has a repair option which may fix any boot issues but you may need to create a repair disk.

    The other possibility is that your S7 can't see the disk drive at boot but that should result in a BIOS report about a missing boot device. I recall seeing a few reports about S7s with that problem, apparently due to a cable problem.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jan 17, 2012
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  3. yknyong1

    yknyong1 Radiance with Radeon

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    Try John's suggestion. If all fails, then it seems to be an intermittent flex HDD cable problem.
     
    yknyong1, Jan 17, 2012
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  4. kangu

    kangu Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the suggestions guys, I tried everything but I gave in and just returned it for store credit at the Microsoft Store.
     
    kangu, Jan 18, 2012
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