Knackered Laptop

[tout]

A serious ask please
My laptop has been bombing-out for a while now,and has now decided it is not willing to rev-up into action !
I am thinking of selling it on as spares/repairs but wary that my details could be raped if I do
beyond removing the hard drive is there anything else I can do...bare in mind the thing wont fire-up into action as it stands !
toshiba A200-151

And for any curious smart-arse I am currently using the Daughters PC to type this

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[billbott]

Have you tried switching it off an on again like the royal navy do?

[twostroker]

Jan 13, 2011 20:25:09 GMT 1 billbott said:

Have you tried switching it off an on again like the royal navy do?

thats what id do,if that dont work its either wd40 or hammer time ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[mellow]

Someone mention Hammer

[tout]

Yeh,thanks for replies
Guess I was wasting my time with the "serious ask "

Beyond safe mode boot ? it just bombs out before it loads to anything....motherboard or processor for a merkin fitters stab in the dark, who knows, pretty sure one of my lads has bounced it for me at some time in the past

[Shytalk]

You could always try to restore the original software at power on this should wipe the disk, alternately remove the disk and format externally.

[cubz]

if you have a copy of windows install disc. boot that in the cd drive and you can format from there. you have to go to install windows before you get option to format. also hold F8 just before windows starts for safe mode.

[monkfish]

Does it have the Toshiba HHD recovery option? Hold down F8 while rebooting and you might find see a 'Repair' option on the same menu as the safe mode option. From there you might be able to restore your laptop to a previouse point in time before it went bad

[greenlandy]

A lot of laptops won't boot if the Bios Battery is poked. First try changing that if that doesn't work then PM me . Where in the world are you tout?

[tout]

Nice try all, cheers for suggestions :

It was a new battery,1 month ago and wont boot without battery in,even plugged in direct to mains
Just to remind everyone....the laptop refuses to load up in ANY condition, be it safe,repair etc it simply bails out at any random time period and just sits with a blank screen with ONLY the standby light on !

Calling all experts (Wigan area)
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[greenlandy]

Try the Bios Battery not the main battery.

[scott]

sorry to jump in but i'm sellin a knackered laptop on ebay and it has a bid so is sold but after readin this thread i wandered what info they can get from it when it's fixed.
the keyboard is f**ked so can't get into safe mode to do anything on it.
it was my son's and wandered if they could get passwords to web sites off it :-/anyone know.

[tout]

Jan 15, 2011 17:49:08 GMT 1 greenlandy said:

Try the Bios Battery not the main battery.

Not a clue what that is !
whats its function ?

Scott my concern too
many a clever scrote out there me finks

[greenlandy]

Yep you need to wipe not format your hard drives if selling IMO.
BIOS battery is the little watch type battery that remembers the settings, time etc for your laptop/PC. That Beep when you boot a PC is the BIOS saying I'm ok before it loads the operating sysem(XP/VISTA/7) if the battery is poked it can cause all sorts of boot issues. Well worth swapping out as they only cost peanuts.
Is the fan running on the Laptop? if it's not or only just running it'll get so far then shut down as it'll get too hot.

[scott]

trouble is i can't wipe anything off it as the keyboard is shagged

[greenlandy]

Jan 15, 2011 22:39:24 GMT 1 scott said:

trouble is i can't wipe anything off it as the keyboard is shagged

I've got a few cables that'll plug into many drives. If you want to post it too me I'll wipe it and return it to you.