Soldato
Already dropped it off at the Spicy Food retailer for their repair "service" but retrospectively just want to garner some idea of what might be wrong.
It's a HP Pavilion I5 laptop with 8Gb of RAM, a 128Gb SSD and 500Gb secondary HD with Nvidia GTX950 grafted to the Intel GPU. Windows 10... Bought just under three months ago.
Working fine on Saturday but when I tried to POST this afternoon, got the HP logo for about two seconds, then a black screen and the fan died. Tried again, same thing. Unable to get into BIOS. Tried removing the battery and power then doing the 15 second hold down of the power button to discharge the residual power. On the first occasion only I was able to get into some sort of Windows troubleshooting screen but none of the utilities - check disc, restore to factory default would work. After that I tried the power discharge several times but just the black screen.
I have noticed in use the laptop was getting very hot, with lots of fan activity even running not particularly GPU heavy apps.
My smart money is that the SSD has died but I guess could be just about anything. The Spicy Food ones seem to reckon it could be up to a week while it goes away to Newark for diagnosis and repair.
It's a HP Pavilion I5 laptop with 8Gb of RAM, a 128Gb SSD and 500Gb secondary HD with Nvidia GTX950 grafted to the Intel GPU. Windows 10... Bought just under three months ago.
Working fine on Saturday but when I tried to POST this afternoon, got the HP logo for about two seconds, then a black screen and the fan died. Tried again, same thing. Unable to get into BIOS. Tried removing the battery and power then doing the 15 second hold down of the power button to discharge the residual power. On the first occasion only I was able to get into some sort of Windows troubleshooting screen but none of the utilities - check disc, restore to factory default would work. After that I tried the power discharge several times but just the black screen.
I have noticed in use the laptop was getting very hot, with lots of fan activity even running not particularly GPU heavy apps.
My smart money is that the SSD has died but I guess could be just about anything. The Spicy Food ones seem to reckon it could be up to a week while it goes away to Newark for diagnosis and repair.