My brother picks up laptops at DI for just that reason every so often. Find the reset button and press it. It sounds stupid but many laptops have some little hard-reset button like you might find on a palm or an HP48. You might need a paperclip to push it. You might also need a manual (or Dr Google) to figure out where the dang thing is (if it has one).

If it doesn't then there's probably some other way to do it like taking the battery out and holding down the power button for ten seconds or something like that.

Jacob Albretsen wrote:
Hoping that a more hardware savey person can give me some insight.

My laptop has decided it doesn't like to boot.  I press the power button and
the power comes on, but no one's home, not even the bios.  The light blinks
that it's in suspend mode (what the?).  Never gets to the display that says
hi, I'm a computer, you have a monitor, what to mess with the bios, okay
then here's your hard drive lets rock... never makes it that far...

Ideas before I rip it open and salvage my data off the hard drive?

Just my luck the warrenty was up two months ago...


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