Can anyone help me with my laptop problem?

Question

About every 4th or 5th time I power up my laptop it stalls during the boot. It never gets to the "beep" to indicate it has sucessfully booted. I have to force a shutdown (hold power button for 5 sec.) to shut it off and start over. Can anyone tell me what the cause might be.

Answer 1

Possibly there is some loose hardware, this can be the memory or the HDD cos the stalling and the Beeps are part of the bootup process not proceeding ! u'll need to isolate the probem by one by one removing parts , par example u can remove the Hdd and try a few times to see if it stalls or not , it might give u HDD error but nonetheless it will not stall if that is not the problem , try a few things to get to the root of the problem.

Answer 2

I think hardware as well, and I'm very concerned about your hard drive. It may be some other hardware, so remove everything you can *easily* take off (CD drives, battery, extra memory, etc.) and see if that happens to solve the problem.

If you still can't find the problem, make a backup of everything important and download a hard drive test program off the Internet.
I like the utility listed below.

You did read the part about making a backup, right?

Mike Honeycutt

Answer 3

That happens to me some times when I wait to shut it down when the battery is depleted. It never completes the necessary steps and then on restarting, it doesn't boot successfully.

Answer 4

Try downloading and using system mechanic 6 .
It was suggested to me and I am not the least bit sorry it solved my shutdown problems plus it fixed 232 other problems I didn`t realize I hadl
http://www.iolo.com/sm/6pro/index.cfm...

Answer 5

No.

Thx for the 2 pts.