Posts by Stilldawn

Its a Dell Inspiron 15 N5030 I have run parted magic which is basically a live linux build. It did all tests in there no problem. Including passing the HDD with flying colours. In all tests it does fine, I'm hoping that just the data...

Ok slight break through maybe. Stupidly I didn't check under the battery lol so anyway now I have the Win7 HP 64bit Key. Anyone know where I can find dell drivers? I tried their site but it didn't instill much confidence.

Quote:Originally Posted by Addictedtokaos Are you able to burn a disk with parted magic and boot into that. If You can boot into parted magic you have access to enough tools to figure out what's going on. I'm suspecting...

The problem is that there is no Win7 product key sticker on the laptop. So I wouldn't be able to activate it if I did a fresh install.

Now I'm stumped. Ran Memtest no issues. Ran Short, Long and Acoustic Tests in Seatools, no issues. The Laptop Posts find, its just booting into Windows that's the issue. I can't even get into Windows to find the Product Key. Any ideas?

No click that I've heard. I'll try Prodkey and see if a fresh complete install will fix it. But I'll run seatools first anyway as there's no point wasting my time if its had it.

Yeah I've run memtest, no errors so its not ram related. I have a Win7 64bit Home DVD, but the problem is that I don't know his product key, there is no sticker on the case as there is normally with desktops.

Yeah I'll be trying seatools tonight. Will also try remove the hdd as well. I'm fairly sure its a hardware issue, since the factory restore should have solved any data issues, especially since the HDD is formatted as part of the...

Tried safemode boot. Same thing really. it usually hangs on this screen (but after the bar is full) After it hangs there for awhile, it will generally either come up with this screen: Or just go straight to the recovery tools...

Hi All I generally do repairs, fixes for mates computers. However one of my mates gave me his laptop which is playing up. I sadly don't have much experience on laptops so I'd thought I'd run through what the problem is and what I am...