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amilo L7300 win xp takes forever to boot

post #1 of 21
4/24/10 at 5:11am
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hi guys newbie here , this notebook is gone to the point where it is unuseable its been booting now for 1 1/2 hours and still on the welcome .. username then please wait ... screen in windows xp i can see the hard disc light is on constantly and i can hear the tracks being acessesed by the hard drive but nothing is changing onscreen after this the notebook screen starts to flicker dark and bright charging light flickers on and off and i get the message you should change to outlet power to keep from losing work and then shuts down even though it is plugged in constantly any clues ??
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post #2 of 21
4/24/10 at 6:56am
What happens when you boot it up with an installation CD?

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post #3 of 21
4/24/10 at 9:19am
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ok i reckon the charging socket is goosed if you move the connector aroud when plugged into it the charging light flick on and off problem one , i have booted up from h/d 1 hour now i just have a blue windows screen with nothing on it except the mouse cursor which i can move , i dont have a fujitsu win xp disc just one from my other dell laptop , i have to go into the bios to change the boot sequence and when i make changes and save to exit press enter its frozen on that screen 40 mins now ???
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post #4 of 21
4/24/10 at 9:26am
Swap out the ram modules if you have 2. Or leave one off to test.

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post #5 of 21
4/24/10 at 9:56am
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will do thanks
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post #6 of 21
4/24/10 at 10:25am
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ok swapped the ram modules pc 2700 333mhz for some other good modules i have and no change all as you were on the blue windows screen now again after getting through the login page any ideas qhn ???
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post #7 of 21
4/24/10 at 12:07pm
BSOD after Windows log in is the issue of driver, most if not all of the times. How about booting into Safe Mode?

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post #8 of 21
4/24/10 at 4:11pm
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hi again qhn thanks for your time , it seems my keyboard enter key is not working so when i go into the bios or boot menu none of my changes get saved i dont think there is another way of confirming the actions ??? maybe i'm wrong
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post #9 of 21
4/24/10 at 4:20pm
Can you get a hand on an external keyboard?

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post #10 of 21
4/25/10 at 7:20am
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it would it have to be a usb or wireless i guess ,would that take over as long as the laptop keyboard was plugged out??
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post #11 of 21
4/25/10 at 7:24am
If no keyboard is being present, it might get stuck forever.

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post #12 of 21
4/25/10 at 10:58am
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i'll try and get a usb board to plug into the laptop and see what happens will be during the week so thanks for now qhn
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post #13 of 21
4/29/10 at 7:23pm
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started laptop today , nothing onscreen .. blank , its booting up lights on fan etc but no screen ?? gpu or lcd i havent tried an external monitor yet will do tomorrow
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post #14 of 21
4/30/10 at 4:56am
Did you check for a short? This happened to me the same way with a laptop once.

This laptop sounds like it's having a tough end of career...the hd thing sounded like not enough power to the hd (power supply issue), the keyboard sounds like a stuck key or an improper seating of the keyboard ribbon, and this issue sounds like the gpu.

I think it's all based on one short. somewhere, check your dc plug on the motherboard, wiggle it while it's on and look for any sparks, it might just need to be resoldered. That fixed my 'customer''s I guess you could say, laptop.
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post #15 of 21
4/30/10 at 4:26pm
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connected to the external monitor , nothing , nada i'll try those thing you said matchbox , i just finished a euro cert . in maintenance and networking course so its a favour for the boss but its not going well ha ha
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post #16 of 21
4/30/10 at 5:17pm
It sounds like an abused child laptop with no will to live.
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post #17 of 21
5/2/10 at 5:29am
Last gasp is to take the comp apart and give it a good clean up with new thermal paste.

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post #18 of 21
5/18/10 at 9:36am
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ran a chkdsk in dos and turned up lots of bad sectors etc , so i cant wipe the drive because " a program is acessing the volume "error and i cant end the program in dos cause xp home doesnt have tasklist command so i guess its a new hd and clean install of windows xp
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post #19 of 21
5/18/10 at 3:12pm
Sounds like a very good plan to me. Good luck.

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post #20 of 21
5/23/10 at 1:51pm
Wierd, I only ever had bad sectors just give me random crashes and losses of data, never slow downs. I thought that hds remap bad sectors on chkdsk running anyway.
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