Hi all,

I was sitting on the couch with my brother the other day and when I
stood up his foot happened to be on my computer power cord and it was
jerked out of my hands and fell flat on the floor. It was on and
remained on at that point. I turned if off to travel the next day,
when I returned to my home and attempted to turn on the computer it
got through about 60-80% of the initial boot and then just sat still.
Wouldn't do anything.

I was just hoping that someone might have a suggestion as to what the
problem would be, and would post their ideas here. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Anything to keep from spending money to fix it
(poor college student here).

Thanks in advance,

FPWL

"Fletcher" <FpwL1399******.com> wrote in message
news:24a5420a-a7bd-45e6-9449-140038d77491@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I was sitting on the couch with my brother the other day and when I
> stood up his foot happened to be on my computer power cord and it was
> jerked out of my hands and fell flat on the floor. It was on and
> remained on at that point. I turned if off to travel the next day,
> when I returned to my home and attempted to turn on the computer it
> got through about 60-80% of the initial boot and then just sat still.
> Wouldn't do anything.
>
> I was just hoping that someone might have a suggestion as to what the
> problem would be, and would post their ideas here. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Anything to keep from spending money to fix it
> (poor college student here).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> FPWL

What do you mean by initial boot? Does it actually start loading the O.S. or
does it stop before then? If it actually starts loading the O.S. then you
might try getting into safe mode. You might also try booting from a bootable
cd. If none of that is possible, try re-seating the memory. Does the hard
drive sound like it's coming up to speed?

You need to disassemble it and find what has been unseated. Harddrive and
memory are fairly easy. Processor will take some work

"Fletcher" <FpwL1399******.com> wrote in message
news:24a5420a-a7bd-45e6-9449-140038d77491@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I was sitting on the couch with my brother the other day and when I
> stood up his foot happened to be on my computer power cord and it was
> jerked out of my hands and fell flat on the floor. It was on and
> remained on at that point. I turned if off to travel the next day,
> when I returned to my home and attempted to turn on the computer it
> got through about 60-80% of the initial boot and then just sat still.
> Wouldn't do anything.
>
> I was just hoping that someone might have a suggestion as to what the
> problem would be, and would post their ideas here. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Anything to keep from spending money to fix it
> (poor college student here).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> FPWL

In news:d0J2j.27115$lD6.23147@newssvr27.news.prodigy. net,
Woody typed:
> You need to disassemble it and find what has been unseated. Harddrive
> and memory are fairly easy. Processor will take some work
>
> "Fletcher" <FpwL1399******.com> wrote in message
> news:24a5420a-a7bd-45e6-9449-140038d77491@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was sitting on the couch with my brother the other day and when I
>> stood up his foot happened to be on my computer power cord and it was
>> jerked out of my hands and fell flat on the floor. It was on and
>> remained on at that point. I turned if off to travel the next day,
>> when I returned to my home and attempted to turn on the computer it
>> got through about 60-80% of the initial boot and then just sat still.
>> Wouldn't do anything.
>>
>> I was just hoping that someone might have a suggestion as to what the
>> problem would be, and would post their ideas here. Any help would be
>> greatly appreciated. Anything to keep from spending money to fix it
>> (poor college student here).
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> FPWL

Yes others mentioned that something has came loose like hard drive,
memory, etc. This is all true and it is quite possible. But it also
sounds like a hard drive crash to me. Meaning when the laptop hit the
floor, the head dug into the platter. Thus the hard drive now has some
scratches on the platter and those areas are no longer good.

What I would do is to run Error Checking on the hard drive. And turn on
"Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". This could take hours to
complete and you have to reboot the computer to start it on the OS
partition. Good luck! :)

--
Bill