I just switched out my old hard drive and ram from my laptop for an upgrade but now my screen is black. When I power it up the power light comes on and you can hear the drive starting to spin but that as far as it goes. When I insert a disk it will try to read it but then gives up. It does all this while maintaining a black screen PLEASE HELP!!!
jahmaka 0 Newbie Poster
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
You haven't said anything about what's on the new hard drive for booting/Windows purposes and how it got there.
So I presume the disk you're inserting is a Windows DVD and you want to do a fresah install.
I think we need a lot more info from you as you're in front of the thing and we're relying on what you tell us.
nickguletskii 0 Light Poster
The new hard drive has no boot sector. I do not know how to resolve this.
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
The new hard drive has no boot sector. I do not know how to resolve this.
Then don't bother replying!
Rik_ 111 Nearly a Posting Maven
Put the old ram back in and see if it works then.
jahmaka 0 Newbie Poster
Put the old ram back in and see if it works then.
I put the old ram and old hard drive back in and i still have the black screen!!!
Rik_ 111 Nearly a Posting Maven
The next thing to do is plug a monitor in the back and see if you get anything from that.
jahmaka 0 Newbie Poster
I pluged it up to a monitor and still nothing? i think i just murdered my laptop. should have took it to someone who knows what they are doing.
Rik_ 111 Nearly a Posting Maven
Remove the ram and the hard drive and see if it beeps at all.
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