I've got a old lenovo n100 laptop, 1.66 dual core, 2gb ram. The problems started when i attempted to install the win 8 dev preview on it, As i'm fairly interested in coding, so the idea was to do it on that and use that as a test machine. When i went into the bios, the system model and uuid number were corrupted, and either showing some corrupted characters or just f's and e's.
I googled the problem and it suggested to try flashing the bios, now lenovo only posts a windows bios flashing utility, so in my haste to fix the problem i applied that, made sure it was running and left the house for a couple of hours. When i came back, the laptop had frozen up completely, I couldn't move the mouse, send any input or command to the laptop, the screen had frozen at 18:07- about 5 minutes after I'd left - typical!
Since it had frozen, on 13/19, i figured that if it hadnt Of started responding after 4 hours or so, there was no hope for it. So i went to turn the machine off, it wouldnt turn off via the power button. So i took the battery out of the machine, left it out for half a minute, then plugged it back in and started the machine, the laptop tries to read the dvd thats in it at the moment, as it makes a noise and the activity light goes on, but the screen doesn't output anything.
Do these laptops have a fail safe in it, or any other way of fixing it, or is it one for the scrapheap?
Thanks in advance
I googled the problem and it suggested to try flashing the bios, now lenovo only posts a windows bios flashing utility, so in my haste to fix the problem i applied that, made sure it was running and left the house for a couple of hours. When i came back, the laptop had frozen up completely, I couldn't move the mouse, send any input or command to the laptop, the screen had frozen at 18:07- about 5 minutes after I'd left - typical!
Since it had frozen, on 13/19, i figured that if it hadnt Of started responding after 4 hours or so, there was no hope for it. So i went to turn the machine off, it wouldnt turn off via the power button. So i took the battery out of the machine, left it out for half a minute, then plugged it back in and started the machine, the laptop tries to read the dvd thats in it at the moment, as it makes a noise and the activity light goes on, but the screen doesn't output anything.
Do these laptops have a fail safe in it, or any other way of fixing it, or is it one for the scrapheap?
Thanks in advance