My laptop fell pff the sofa and landed on the hard drive side. when i tried to boot it up it just says MEDIA TEST FAILURE CHECK CABLE. ive looked inside and cant find anything loose. I also ran a spyware scan off yahoo before it went down, could this have caused any problems?
2006-11-04 22:03:45 · 8 answers · asked by Paul R 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Uh-oh. Reformat. Pop-in a windows disc and reformat that thing. That happened to me, wire came out while computer was running, and Media test failure. You're pretty much screwd...I reformated, good as new, but I had everything backed up to begin with. You, might not, but you should have the backup discs to install everything and whatnot. (It's illegal not to send them)
Goodluck.
2006-11-04 22:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by Typical 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This issue is often caused by either an incorrect setting in BIOS or a bad boot device, such as a bad hard disk drive. To resolve this issue, we suggest you go through the steps in document CH000229 relating to a similar error message.
the link for CH000229 is -
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000229.htm
2006-11-05 06:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by zombie 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.
Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
2006-11-05 21:21:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it start up at all? If so, try running system restore, maybe it was just a coinsidence that you dropped the laptop at about the same time you ran that spyware thing.
2006-11-05 06:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by Casey 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I had same problem with my Toshiba P20 only thing that helped solve this problem is i bought new hard drive and replaced it.
It works fine now
2006-11-09 04:15:16 · answer #5 · answered by Evgeniy T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This looks like a hardware failure
So my advice if you have anything that can be deattached do so, remove any external or internal parts and install them again (CD, floppy, HDD, Ram, etc)
2006-11-05 06:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by taryamma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you don't know what you're doing you shouldn't even open your laptop, take it to a shop, it's probably just a bad connected cable, not due to the spyware scan but due to your carelessness in dropping your pc on the floor ...
2006-11-05 06:07:47 · answer #7 · answered by Splishy 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately the previous answer is going to be correct. Check this link for more information:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000706.htm
2006-11-05 06:10:06 · answer #8 · answered by pete_ramsden 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋