Ctrl+alt+del makes laptop post ???

No3ntry

No3ntry

No3ntry

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Have a laptop here that when powered on just powers off then on again in an endless loop without displaying anything on screen until cntrl alt del is pressed whilst it is in the "powered on" stage of its loop on, then it will work (sometimes)

Any ideas ?
 
Psst, I realise this may sound a little condesending, but could you perhaps consider the prospect that your readers may not be seeing things through YOUR eyes, so may appreciate more information? Afterall they don't know things about the system that you do.

My thoughts are, what did you do to it to cause this behaviour? My other thoughts are: Insert the OS CD\DVD and see what happens then? Download unpack the 'ultimate boot cd\dvd or extract to thumb drive': http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-and-boot-ultimate-boot-cd-ubcd-from-a-usb-device/

Remove the battery, restart the system it may try but fail obviously then install the battery again and see what if anything happened. Apart from that there's:

/FIXMBR: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx?mfr=true

/FIXBOOT: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx?mfr=true

Though both of those should be served by the ultimate boot cd if not then when you reach a prompt via the OS disk.

HTH
 
all of those tools are relevant to a laptop/pc that is POSTING ok.

This laptop has a POST problem. I have never witnessed ctrl+alt+del make a pc/laptop that fails to POST work.

It isnt my laptop by the way hence me not having much more information on it other than what it is currently doing.
 
No3ntry said:
all of those tools are relevant to a laptop/pc that is POSTING ok.

This laptop has a POST problem. I have never witnessed ctrl+alt+del make a pc/laptop that fails to POST work.

It isnt my laptop by the way hence me not having much more information on it other than what it is currently doing.
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Ok, what I meant by details would have included Make and Model of the laptop was all. Perhaps you could google the manual, see what you can work out from that. It should at the very least advise you as to what version of motherboard you should be looking for, then maybe which bios the laptop had shouldn't it? From that you could google 'bios revision & boot block repair' and perhaps recover from there?

Or from that you maybe able to acquire a suitable flash and from that who knows? Deploy it and see if it works!? Or at the very least perhaps it will show you the error flashes or beep codes.

Otherwise you're going to need a suitable diagnostic test card to find the error codes aren't you. I take it you've not got one to hand? Then perhaps seeing as you have enough posts you could post a 'REQ' in the 'members sale forum' and perhaps borrow one?

If that doesn't work, purchase one:

http://www.pc-diagnostics.com/pc_diagnostics_tools/Motherboard_test_card_combo_pack.shtml

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/laptop...tic-test-card-analyzer-for-mini-pci-lpt-23010

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/laptop...test-card-pc-analyzer-for-mini-pci-slot-23014

if that doesn't work, or you manage to find the relevant details perhaps: http://www.badflash.com/ or http://www.biosflash.com/index.htm maybe able to assist.

Does any of that help, or am I teaching you to suck eggs here?
 
Oh yes and incidentally, before I forget. I suggested the incorrect 'boot cd' above I got confused between the ultimate and 'HirensBootCD' http://www.hirensbootcd.org/ mainly because one of them was talking of including the 'virutal windows environment' the lasttime I looked in on it. It seems they both included such a thing. Anyway, apparantly this little windows environment allows you to enter Windows and interact as you ordinarily would, which was the reason I thought it may allow you access from Windows Out, as opposed to like now you trying to access Windows. This assume this isn't an Apple laptop of course :)
 
I have been to the "jungle" and bought a test card.
I was blissfully oblivious that these even existed. This should be one handy piece of kit if it works.

Thanks for your help :)
 
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