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    Help: laptop won't power-up.....

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by cappu, Jul 13, 2007.

  1. cappu

    cappu Newbie

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    Hi, sorry to bother, but i need some help urgently, I can't switch on my laptop now. when i press the power, only the "power bulb" will be on, hard disk is not working, nothing on the screen. I uninstalled the extra memory I installed, but it didn't help. Anybody has any idea what is going on? I have very important data in my laptop, please let me know if you can help! thank you very very very much!

    btw, it's a toshiba portege R100.....
     
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  2. David

    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    What exactly did you do before your laptop won't turn on?

    FYI, you can always take your hard drive out and connect it to another computer to retrieve your data
     
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    cappu Newbie

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    The laptop was in stand-by mode. I put it on bed and folded down the screen. When I renturned, it won't power up...

    By the way: what is the HD interface on a notebook? IDE or something else? Can I use an enternal enclosure to connect it to PC?
     
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    jabbok Notebook Deity

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    you may have overheated it when you left it on the bed because you blocked the vents, try removing the battery to see if it will start, if not you may have fried your board
     
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  5. David

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    Don't know if you tried this, but take the battery pack out and just plug the AC adpater in your laptop.
    It sounds like a hardware failure of some sort (maybe the motherboard ot graphics card?)
    Yea, you can purcase a HD case on ebay for like 5 or 6 bucks. Here's link to one (I purchased one earlier too for my notebook hard drive)
    http://cgi.ebay.com/2-5-USB-2-0-Har...4QQihZ007QQcategoryZ41911QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    So all you ahve to do is take your current hard drive out and put it in the case. the USB cables are provided and just have to plug it into another computer to retrieve your data. So basically, by doing this you are turing your currnet hard drive to an external hard drive for a few bucks!
     
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