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Need help with an Armada M700 laptop
Hi folks,
My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA |
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Need help with an Armada M700 laptop
"Robert Smith" wrote in message ink.net... Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA Did you reseat the disk / memory before getting into other things ? If that didn;t no any good, AND if you DO need the data : buy a 'notebook to full size IDE cable" adapter ( just some pins bent to insert into each each item - about $5 at a computer store ) , remove the disk and using that adapter connect it to a desktop PC as a second disk. Save your data to the desktop PC, then wipe/reformat/restore the laptop disk from your last backup ( you DID do that right ? ) The hard drive is under the touchpad. To remove it: POWER OFF and REMOVE THE BATTERY. 1. Tilt the computer at an angle so the bottom front of the computer is accessible 2 If the hard drive has been secured in the hard drive bay with a security screw , remove the screw . TURN IT to keyboard up / normal position 3. Push down on the hard drive bezel on the front of the hard drive ( left of headphone jack) 4. Lift the bezel up 90 degrees to create a handle . Pull the hard drive out of the hard drive bay. If you have no need of the data on there.... it seems that windows is hosed/bad memory or bad spot on the drive. Do you have the m700 restore CD's ? If so, I 'd fdisk it first (or run some other disk utility to test for /identify bad sectors), then reformat, then restore the drive. If you don't have the restore CD's you can get the specific drivers from compaq.com and put them on a CD . Then install windows from CD and have the driver CD nearby to insert as needed. |
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Need help with an Armada M700 laptop
On Jun 19, 2:06 pm, "Robert Smith"
wrote: Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA Sounds like a bad hard drive. I would download the drive manufacturer's diagnostics. Seatools form seagate will do if you can't find the one for your drive. |
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Need help with an Armada M700 laptop
"- Bobb -" wrote in message . .. "Robert Smith" wrote in message ink.net... Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA Did you reseat the disk / memory before getting into other things ? If that didn;t no any good, AND if you DO need the data : buy a 'notebook to full size IDE cable" adapter ( just some pins bent to insert into each each item - about $5 at a computer store ) , remove the disk and using that adapter connect it to a desktop PC as a second disk. Save your data to the desktop PC, then wipe/reformat/restore the laptop disk from your last backup ( you DID do that right ? ) The hard drive is under the touchpad. To remove it: POWER OFF and REMOVE THE BATTERY. 1. Tilt the computer at an angle so the bottom front of the computer is accessible 2 If the hard drive has been secured in the hard drive bay with a security screw , remove the screw . TURN IT to keyboard up / normal position 3. Push down on the hard drive bezel on the front of the hard drive ( left of headphone jack) 4. Lift the bezel up 90 degrees to create a handle . Pull the hard drive out of the hard drive bay. If you have no need of the data on there.... it seems that windows is hosed/bad memory or bad spot on the drive. Do you have the m700 restore CD's ? If so, I 'd fdisk it first (or run some other disk utility to test for /identify bad sectors), then reformat, then restore the drive. If you don't have the restore CD's you can get the specific drivers from compaq.com and put them on a CD . Then install windows from CD and have the driver CD nearby to insert as needed. Thanks for the info Bobb. I will try those steps this weekend. No worries on the data as it's backed up on a separate external 80 Gig HD. Bob |
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Need help with an Armada M700 laptop
wrote in message oups.com... On Jun 19, 2:06 pm, "Robert Smith" wrote: Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA Sounds like a bad hard drive. I would download the drive manufacturer's diagnostics. Seatools form seagate will do if you can't find the one for your drive. Question. Even if I download the program from Seagate, how would I do diagnostics on the other laptop, when all it does when it's on is loop through the start up process. |
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Need help with an Armada M700 laptop
You prepare bootable media, either floppy or CD, and boot from it. You will
never see the "line of bars fill out", because Windows itself will never start up. I strongly agree with Paul's suspicion that the hard drive is defective. Happened to my wife's notebook last night. Now I've reloaded Windows and I have to scavenge her data from the defective hard drive... Ben Myers On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:46:36 GMT, "Robert Smith" wrote: wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 19, 2:06 pm, "Robert Smith" wrote: Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA Sounds like a bad hard drive. I would download the drive manufacturer's diagnostics. Seatools form seagate will do if you can't find the one for your drive. Question. Even if I download the program from Seagate, how would I do diagnostics on the other laptop, when all it does when it's on is loop through the start up process. |
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Robert - also see these links I posted in another M700 question over in
alt.computer: message title = Compaq Armada m700 keyboard problem there is a 'keypad mode' that you have selected ( is the num lock light ON ? - middle of the 5 leds) page 32 of THIS manual http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su...168893-001.pdf " To disable the embedded numeric keypad-Press Fn+Num Lk. " They have all m700 manuals online - you might want to download them and save to the pc. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...SeriesId=96235 "- Bobb -" wrote in message . .. "Robert Smith" wrote in message ink.net... Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA Did you reseat the disk / memory before getting into other things ? If that didn;t no any good, AND if you DO need the data : buy a 'notebook to full size IDE cable" adapter ( just some pins bent to insert into each each item - about $5 at a computer store ) , remove the disk and using that adapter connect it to a desktop PC as a second disk. Save your data to the desktop PC, then wipe/reformat/restore the laptop disk from your last backup ( you DID do that right ? ) The hard drive is under the touchpad. To remove it: POWER OFF and REMOVE THE BATTERY. 1. Tilt the computer at an angle so the bottom front of the computer is accessible 2 If the hard drive has been secured in the hard drive bay with a security screw , remove the screw . TURN IT to keyboard up / normal position 3. Push down on the hard drive bezel on the front of the hard drive ( left of headphone jack) 4. Lift the bezel up 90 degrees to create a handle . Pull the hard drive out of the hard drive bay. If you have no need of the data on there.... it seems that windows is hosed/bad memory or bad spot on the drive. Do you have the m700 restore CD's ? If so, I 'd fdisk it first (or run some other disk utility to test for /identify bad sectors), then reformat, then restore the drive. If you don't have the restore CD's you can get the specific drivers from compaq.com and put them on a CD . Then install windows from CD and have the driver CD nearby to insert as needed. |
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Need help with an Armada M700 laptop
On Jun 21, 9:46 am, "Robert Smith"
wrote: wrote in message oups.com... On Jun 19, 2:06 pm, "Robert Smith" wrote: Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe w/networking and so on, it boots up and then it starts looping again. Any other suggestions before I have to take it to the shop and spend $$$? TIA Sounds like a bad hard drive. I would download the drive manufacturer's diagnostics. Seatools form seagate will do if you can't find the one for your drive. Question. Even if I download the program from Seagate, how would I do diagnostics on the other laptop, when all it does when it's on is loop through the start up process. It's a bootable cd or floppy. If your computer is not set to boot form a cd or floppy before the hard drive, press f10 at startup to enter the BIOS setup program. |
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