I have a HP 250 about 18 months old. It will not start up now. I see a light on the wireless button and a blue light blinks on cap button . The computer makes a faint sound on pressing power button, but screen remain blank. I did hard reset but no success Help please.
Laptop won't start up I see blinking light
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Hi,
Please do try these troubleshooting steps that may help.
- Start by doing a hard reboot, remove the battery and unplug the AC adapter then press and hold the power button for 20 seconds then try booting it up again.
- If this will not work, do test the AC adapter if it's working properly. Remove the battery and power the laptop with just the AC adapter connected and see if it will boot up or not. do also try a different AC adapter that has the same voltage and see if it will work or not.
- Proceed with reseating the RAM's if trying a different AC adapter will not work, remove them all for couple of seconds then put them back in making sure everything is seated properly.
- If it will still not work, connect an external monitor and see if you'll get any display from it. If there's a display on the external monitor that could mean that the problem is the built in display.
- But if there's still no display on the external monitor that means the problem lies in the motherboard.
Please do try these troubleshooting steps that may help.
- Start by doing a hard reboot, remove the battery and unplug the AC adapter then press and hold the power button for 20 seconds then try booting it up again.
- If this will not work, do test the AC adapter if it's working properly. Remove the battery and power the laptop with just the AC adapter connected and see if it will boot up or not. do also try a different AC adapter that has the same voltage and see if it will work or not.
- Proceed with reseating the RAM's if trying a different AC adapter will not work, remove them all for couple of seconds then put them back in making sure everything is seated properly.
- If it will still not work, connect an external monitor and see if you'll get any display from it. If there's a display on the external monitor that could mean that the problem is the built in display.
- But if there's still no display on the external monitor that means the problem lies in the motherboard.
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I have a hp laptop but when I get password it start blinking and I can't get on internet nor type anything . What should I do solve this problem
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Hello guys,
I had a same problem with you and finally, I got it.
First, You should take your battery and start your computer without battery (with cable). If it is not solved, try Second one.
Second, first of all clean your RAM(s) and try to start your computer like we did as ‘first’ one. If it again does not respond, change your RAM(s) place (my computer accepted last one).
I wish you gonna get it.
Best regards…
I had a same problem with you and finally, I got it.
First, You should take your battery and start your computer without battery (with cable). If it is not solved, try Second one.
Second, first of all clean your RAM(s) and try to start your computer like we did as ‘first’ one. If it again does not respond, change your RAM(s) place (my computer accepted last one).
I wish you gonna get it.
Best regards…
Hi, I'm writing a long response because I know that getting the right keywords will help others find this answer (I've also posted this answer elsewhere). This solution worked for me, but of course, your mileage may vary. Scroll to the bottom for the TLDR cause and solutions.
Anyway, I just had this problem happen to the 2 laptops that my daughter and I use. When we tried to turn on our laptops, they would intermittently start. At times pressing the power button would bring the PCs to boot up, other times they would fail and all we'd get is a blinking HDD led. If the laptops manage to boot into windows, a restart would probably cause it to fail into the hdd led blinking no start state. I tried removing the battery, power supply, hdd, ram, disconnecting the keyboard/touchpad, display, WiFi, etc on my laptop. This only seemed to help it start properly once. After that, the problem came back when I restart, or shutdown and try to power on. Leaving the laptops alone for 10 minutes or more before trying to power them on seemed to work as well. The longer the duration the better.
Questioning my daughter, I realised that our laptops developed this problem after we had both used them on battery power till the laptops ran out of power.
That's when I remembered that both our laptops had hibernation disabled. Because both laptops had smaller SSDs, I didn't want hibernate to use the limited storage on the laptops...
THE CAUSE:
- Laptops had hibernation disabled.
- Critical battery power state had triggered windows to try to enter hibernation.
- Laptops were not able to load hiberfil.sys (corrupted?) at power on, resulting in the blinking HDD led instead of booting into Windows.
Choose one solution:
SOLUTION A: GIMME HIBERNATE!
- Re-enable hibernation.
*Update: It has occurred to me that it is possible for PCs with hibernation enabled to have this problem if hiberfil.sys was corrupted (e.g. complete power off due to zero battery power while the ram was being saved to hiberfil.sys). If this is the case, you will need to set a higher percentage of battery power left in your advanced power settings for critical battery state.
SOLUTION B: I DON'T LIKE HIBERNATE!
- Change ALL the advanced power settings (Balanced, High performance, etc..):
... Expand sleep->hibernate after: Set On battery and Plugged in to NEVER
... Expand battery, ensure that none of the actions for critical or low battery is set to hibernate.
... If hiberfil.sys exists, as admin at command prompt, enter: powercfg -h off
Anyway, I just had this problem happen to the 2 laptops that my daughter and I use. When we tried to turn on our laptops, they would intermittently start. At times pressing the power button would bring the PCs to boot up, other times they would fail and all we'd get is a blinking HDD led. If the laptops manage to boot into windows, a restart would probably cause it to fail into the hdd led blinking no start state. I tried removing the battery, power supply, hdd, ram, disconnecting the keyboard/touchpad, display, WiFi, etc on my laptop. This only seemed to help it start properly once. After that, the problem came back when I restart, or shutdown and try to power on. Leaving the laptops alone for 10 minutes or more before trying to power them on seemed to work as well. The longer the duration the better.
Questioning my daughter, I realised that our laptops developed this problem after we had both used them on battery power till the laptops ran out of power.
That's when I remembered that both our laptops had hibernation disabled. Because both laptops had smaller SSDs, I didn't want hibernate to use the limited storage on the laptops...
THE CAUSE:
- Laptops had hibernation disabled.
- Critical battery power state had triggered windows to try to enter hibernation.
- Laptops were not able to load hiberfil.sys (corrupted?) at power on, resulting in the blinking HDD led instead of booting into Windows.
Choose one solution:
SOLUTION A: GIMME HIBERNATE!
- Re-enable hibernation.
*Update: It has occurred to me that it is possible for PCs with hibernation enabled to have this problem if hiberfil.sys was corrupted (e.g. complete power off due to zero battery power while the ram was being saved to hiberfil.sys). If this is the case, you will need to set a higher percentage of battery power left in your advanced power settings for critical battery state.
SOLUTION B: I DON'T LIKE HIBERNATE!
- Change ALL the advanced power settings (Balanced, High performance, etc..):
... Expand sleep->hibernate after: Set On battery and Plugged in to NEVER
... Expand battery, ensure that none of the actions for critical or low battery is set to hibernate.
... If hiberfil.sys exists, as admin at command prompt, enter: powercfg -h off
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