Elmar Weber wrote:
> Hellp,
>
> BillW50 wrote:
>> Wow the HD lites doesn't show anything? Being dropped? Oh bad hard
>> drive or bad motherboard is my guesses. But I am thinking of the
>> latter actually. This isn't good Elmar.
>
> Thanks for your reply. HDD was defect after the crash, I replaced it
> with another one that works and boots (in another laptop) but the
> notebook never comes that far.
>
> In case of a defect motherboard its of course FUBAR, although its hard
> for me to imagine that the motherboard is gone because it sometimes
> produces a "normal" first few seconds.
> Although there are not mechanical components on the motherboard, is it
> possible that a circuit path has some kind of "loose contact" - if you
> can call it that - based on the crash?
>
> ciao,
> Elmar
>

You are not saying what kind of OS is on the replacement hard-drive.
Without more info, I would suggest you boot into Bios, so that any OS
problem can be ruled out. If the Bios screen appears correctly, there is
a good chance the system is not damaged and you need to reinstall the OS
to confirm this.

This being said, as Bill, I am not holding my breath ...

Regards

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John Doue