I was using my laptop and it hung up with IE7 running during Windows update. I had to do a power button forced shutdown. Now BIOS won't post, it won't boot either. The power light comes on, the hard drive light comes on for about 2 seconds then nothing but a black screen. I removed the memory, swapped them around, tried it with only one chip in, cleaned the memory chips and slots still nothing.

Have a look here: Tutorial: No POST (Power On Self Test)

You are a saint! It worked perfectly! Thank you so very much!

Thanks for the update
That thread has nearly hit 10,000 views, but because it's closed I don't know how many users it helps
So feedback is always welcomed

Since it is so helpful, should it not be made a sticky?

Hmm

It's already in the Guides and Tutorials forum
But you know what? I've never thought of a sticky

I'm not sure if our Admin here wants multiple stickies (as there are already some there)
But I do agree that it should be

... Not sure what to do. ... I'll wait until it reaches 10,000 on the dot and then approach Admin here

Thanks for the suggestion
If you had enough posts, I'd ask you to PM him and ask him, oh well, I'll wait

Edit:

I PMed the Administrator on this, after looking more closer at your suggestion
We will wait and see the outcome