VolcomPimp Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 Recently I replaced my hard drive on my laptop because my old one died and wasn't covered by hitachi because it was oem. It was working fine for a while afterwards and then all of a sudden one day the Windows XP loading screen (w/ the moving bars) was taking about 10 minutes or so to complete. A day later, it would do the same thing but would never load windows. After trying to boot a few times, the system started to not even post. Now when I turn the system on, the screen just stays black and I can't enter the bios or anything. My laptop is an Asus z80k (whitebox) so I can't just take it down and have them figure the problem out (they're located about a mile from my house luckily) unless I know it's a motherboard problem. I'm wondering if this sounds like it's more of a ram, motherboard/bios or some other problem? I'm probably gonna just buy some new ram and see if the issue is fixed. If that's the case, I'm NEVER buying a pre-built whitebox again after having the ram and hard drive go out on me in the same month and then find out they aren't covered. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 no bios beep is usually mobo. I'm willing to bet you got a bad mobo all together. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4pta1ntr1ps Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 I agree with bigred. if it wont even go to the bios it sounds like its the motherboard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 a bad stick of ram can keep you out of the bios, but at least the computer will beep at you. bad motherboard, means it won't beep. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerm Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 I agree with red on this one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 but ive never had a laptop beep at me anyway...I say try borrowing some ram form a friend b4 buying any Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeremy Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 Unless...the TINY speaker exploded!?! Err...wait I agree with bigred. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 OH yes they beep. it's an asus whitebox (I have 2 of them). pull the ram and it'll screem bloody murder. Pull the cpu and listen to it go insane. trust me, I'm putting my $$$ on the mobo here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 humm well I guess my laptop is special it doesnt beep at me...even if i dont do what it wants...it just gives me a black screen of death Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 humm well I guess my laptop is special it doesnt beep at me...even if i dont do what it wants...it just gives me a black screen of death 557964[/snapback] heh, lol i thought i was the only one with a laptop that sounded like a firealarml, on topic, yeah i agree wit everyone, the mobo is probably dead, maybe your old hardrive might even still be good Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolcomPimp Posted October 11, 2005 Posted October 11, 2005 Well actually we're all wrong (at least at first glance)... Looks like I'm retarded sort of. I bought some good ram today at fry's and switched out the sodimm, but same thing. Then when messing with it I realized I wasn't actually locked out of the bios. It just goes black because I guess I don't have the Asus logo set to show or something (it used to do that, then I flashed the bios and it started showing then I guess I must of flashed it a while ago and it stopped and I never noticed or something). So I tried reinstalling Windows and everything seems fine. The WinXP install was pretty fresh, so I'm wondering if it was just a software issue, or a hardware issue that will eventually screw me over again. Anyone know of any ram testing software? I formatted the entire 80gb drive to have to partition for windows because I was lazy, could that have maybe caused it to some how fragment everything all over the drive and I dono, borked itself after downloading big files from the web? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
apostolics Posted October 11, 2005 Posted October 11, 2005 there are ton sof test i recomend dl a linux live cd like mepis that way you have a bootable os and can see if its os or harrdware related Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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