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[iEatDuckies]

When I opened my laptop today the user login page didn't show. You know how you have to type in your password on the computer to get into your account? Ex: Admin,Student. The screen was all black and the only other thing was the mouse cursor. I ran system recovery at least 6 times and everytime after it finished the same thing happened. I also tried safe mode and no changes D:! I was gonna reinstall it but I couldn't find the disk x-x. By the way its windows vista 32-bit.

[Risque]

this seems to be a graphics issue.

try to remove the battery, press and hold the power button for 20 seconds, put back the battery and then restart the laptop.

[Cowfun]

Have you tried.... WAITING??!

Anyway, try Risque's suggestion, and if that doesn't work I'd recommend a reformat. If THAT doesn't work then it is probably an issue with one of your components, e.g. RAM.

[xyz]

Don't reformat it until you know some more about what's going on (or not going on). It could be a broken display, loose RAM, bad drive, a ton of stuff. Also, find the disks and/or go into your computer's BIOS mode for no other reason for starters but to at least see if doing those things will get something displayed.

[z2z007]

I think the hard drive is toast since you said your windows disk couldn't even find your hard drive.

I would try getting an adapter like this: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16812156014

You can pop out your hard drive and plug it into another machine and see if it pop ups or even spins. Note that this adapter is for SATA hard drives not IDE. You need a different adapter for IDE drives.

[iEatDuckies]

I already tried taking out the battery etc. I have no idea how to reformat my computer o-o..

[ClEMeNt]

When all else fails, BUY A NEW COMPUTER.

[Flowright]

iEatDuckies, on 02 October 2009 - 10:42 PM, said:

I already tried taking out the battery etc. I have no idea how to reformat my computer o-o..

I've recently reformatted my computer, so i can walk you through this. On Vista you have to insert your OS disk, or whatever they call it. This would be the disk that says Windows Vista .... Reinstallation DVD. You insert that, make sure the computer can read it. Then restart the computer. From here there can be many different steps, some ask you right away if you want to boot form disk or not, others have to press F12 or something. If you do have to press F12 or some other key, you'll have to do it before the load screen comes up. After this its pretty self explanatory.
If you do decide to reformat your computer, i would create partitions. So that if you do decide to reformat your computer you'll only need to delete a partition that you think is causing the problems.

I'm pretty sure you can call some kinda service to get your reinstallation disk back.

[xyz]

I still see nothing that indicates you need to reformat your drive. Might you need to? Of course. Do you need to? Figure out what's wrong first. Even if you have everything backed up first.

Just to come full circle, can you say again what the laptop can and can't do? Can you see anything at all at any point?

[Flowright]

xyz, on 03 October 2009 - 03:13 PM, said:

I still see nothing that indicates you need to reformat your drive. Might you need to? Of course. Do you need to? Figure out what's wrong first. Even if you have everything backed up first.

Just to come full circle, can you say again what the laptop can and can't do? Can you see anything at all at any point?

From what i can tell its crashing before it even starts. So i would think he should reboot. Best is to ask a professional, or take it to the store.

[iEatDuckies]

I can see the green thing go across the bar at the bottom and after that the screen is all black when the user list shows. My dad got someone to find out whats wrong and they're reinstalling windows right now. They said if that doesn't work then they'll have to change the hard drive o-o

[Flowright]

iEatDuckies, on 03 October 2009 - 04:43 PM, said:

I can see the green thing go across the bar at the bottom and after that the screen is all black when the user list shows. My dad got someone to find out whats wrong and they're reinstalling windows right now. They said if that doesn't work then they'll have to change the hard drive o-o

I don't think you'd have to replace a hard drive unless you physically destroy it.

[iEatDuckies]

^ I think they're just trying to make money and rip us off

[Flowright]

Well hope you get your computer fixed and hopefully nothing happens to your hard drive. BTW how are you accessing the site with no computer @_@, Library?

[z2z007]

Flowright, on 03 October 2009 - 04:44 PM, said:

I don't think you'd have to replace a hard drive unless you physically destroy it.

That's not true. Hard drives typically have a lifetime for 3-4 years depending on usage. They will fail eventually. I work as IT support at my university.

[Flowright]

z2z007, on 03 October 2009 - 05:09 PM, said:

That's not true. Hard drives typically have a lifetime for 3-4 years depending on usage. They will fail eventually. I work as IT support at my university.

Oh, well i would consider age as a physical damage. But yeah i suppose hard drives aren't destroyed just from beating it physically.

[iEatDuckies]

Noo. I'm using my brother's desktop lol. He rarely lets me use it thuogh thats why its taking me forever to answer o__o

[Flowright]

iEatDuckies, on 03 October 2009 - 05:36 PM, said:

Noo. I'm using my brother's desktop lol. He rarely lets me use it thuogh thats why its taking me forever to answer o__o

Just asking, are you paying this person to reboot your computer?

[iEatDuckies]

mhmm o-o; nothing is for free right

[Flowright]

iEatDuckies, on 03 October 2009 - 05:49 PM, said:

mhmm o-o; nothing is for free right

O.o Rebooting is easy though... How much are you paying ?