My old gateway laptop( a couple years old) wont really turn on the right way. It wiil either not go past the beginning load screen with the bars or give me a pop up message that something is wrong and will run a check on it then shut off again after I hit finish. When I turn It back on the never ending loading beginning bars pop back up. Any one got any answers that can help me?
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smorizio
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on old laptops the cmos battery may have gone bad. check the cmos settings to see if there right. try at power on hit f8 safe mode. if you can get into windows in safe mode use msconfig turn everything off in start up. then see if you can post into windows. with the power off check that the ram on the mb is seated and check your mb/hard drive for rusted parts/bad caps.
photonboy
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My main guess is it is the Hard Drive.
Try burning a 32-bit UBUNTU DVD on another PC (download ISO and use Imgburn) then boot and run directly from the DVD.
You may need to change the BIOS boot order so the DVD drive comes first.
*I couldn't tell if you started the WINDOWS BOOT or if you couldn't even get into the BIOS.
**If the Ubuntu disc successfully runs (play around with it a bit) then your main PC parts are working and that pretty much narrows your problem to your hard drive either being physically damaged, or your software being corrupted. Either way, you'll likely have to reinstall Windows, possibly to a new drive.
Try burning a 32-bit UBUNTU DVD on another PC (download ISO and use Imgburn) then boot and run directly from the DVD.
You may need to change the BIOS boot order so the DVD drive comes first.
*I couldn't tell if you started the WINDOWS BOOT or if you couldn't even get into the BIOS.
**If the Ubuntu disc successfully runs (play around with it a bit) then your main PC parts are working and that pretty much narrows your problem to your hard drive either being physically damaged, or your software being corrupted. Either way, you'll likely have to reinstall Windows, possibly to a new drive.
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