Laptop woes!

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My missus has a HP dv6000 laptop that is refusing to boot. The bios emits one long beep followed by two short beeps, which I am guessing is a VGA issue.

It is within warranty so we are going to take it back there tomorrow but in the meantime, any ideas on a quick fix?

I also want to extract the hard drive and take a ghost image of it. Do I just need a 2.5 inch caddy?

Cheers for any advice as it has all her work on it for her postgrad teaching qualification that is due for submission on weds!

Thanks
 
Do you have a montor you could hook it up to to see if the screen is broke?

Any 2.5 inch caddy should be ok with the drive if its IDE.

However - i had a HP DV6022ea and it had a SATA hard drive so im not sure it would work in an enclosure
 
tried connecting it to my monitor- no joy, same long beep followed by a double beep in quick succession.

I have a SATA adapter on my case that links to my mobo so will open up the laptop before splashing out on the caddy.


Any ideas what bios the hp uses? I want to understand what the error codes are
 
had exactly the same issue on my dv6190eu mate.

as you have said it was the vga, and a complete sys board replacement.

make sure you get them to write on the sheet any damage already on the laptop.

Mine went in pristine, came out with the plastics not fitted back properly and a small scratch on the inside.

I wrote and complained and submitted a copy of the original forms which the lass had written on "As new condition" when i handed it over to them.

I got a £50 gift voucher for it. Still annoying though.



Im guessing yours will be the same as mine, in which case you will have a sata hdd inside the laptop. You can get sata to ide convertors. Which will allow you to copy off your data, i havent seen any 2.5" sata enclosures yet.
 
Managed to get hold of a SATA caddy and get the data off it.

Quick question though...did I actually need one? Could I not just have connected the 2.5 inch drive to one of my free SATA ports and used one of the free power supply leads as the connectors look the same? Or is the adapter required to step the power down or something?

Cheers
 
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