Hello people,
I'm Stephen and boy am I glad to have found this site!
For the last week or so my laptop has been giving me some grief and is driving me insane.
It's approx 18 months old, Pentium 4, 3.4Ghz, 512 RAM and 80Gb
More often than not, when I turn it on, it won't start up. I'm often left with a black screen and nothing happens. For some reason i've noticed that if I press the F12 button a few times it will eventually start but then may just switch off.
Other times it will start up then make a bleeping noise a few times then switch off.
Or (yes there's another one!!) it will start up normally, work for a few minutes then freeze and switch itself off.
I was actually in the middle of writing this message last night when one it just cut out on me, hence why i'm retyping it today.
I eventually got it to startup and work ok so I ran a virus check through Norton and nothing was found.
Can anybody give me any advice - other than chucking it out of the window of my 3rd floor flat?
Regards,
Stephen
I'm Stephen and boy am I glad to have found this site!
For the last week or so my laptop has been giving me some grief and is driving me insane.
It's approx 18 months old, Pentium 4, 3.4Ghz, 512 RAM and 80Gb
More often than not, when I turn it on, it won't start up. I'm often left with a black screen and nothing happens. For some reason i've noticed that if I press the F12 button a few times it will eventually start but then may just switch off.
Other times it will start up then make a bleeping noise a few times then switch off.
Or (yes there's another one!!) it will start up normally, work for a few minutes then freeze and switch itself off.
I was actually in the middle of writing this message last night when one it just cut out on me, hence why i'm retyping it today.
I eventually got it to startup and work ok so I ran a virus check through Norton and nothing was found.
Can anybody give me any advice - other than chucking it out of the window of my 3rd floor flat?
Regards,
Stephen