Hello,
I'm new here and did try a quick search looking for similer issues. A few days ago a buddy gave me his old laptop. He said he thought the dvd rom was NG. The unit is a compaq presario v2000. I have seen these laptops have a high rate of mobo failure. I'm hoping thats not the case.
The symptoms:
upon startup it goes to the hp/centrino screen then it goes to a flashing curser in the top left corner for a few seconds. Finally it rests on a black screen and tells me to remove any disks/media and restart.
I heard you guys like a challenge so if thats true and anyone is willing to help. I would appreciate it. (So would my son
)
I'm pretty puter savvy and can follow instructions....I just don't know where to begin.
Thank you in advance to anyone who may give this a shot.
OS: winxp pro
cpu: 1.4 pentium m
ram: 512mb
Oh and the dvd rom doesn't appear to work. When I do put a cd in, the black screen with the flashing curser appears to hang a lil longer.
I'm new here and did try a quick search looking for similer issues. A few days ago a buddy gave me his old laptop. He said he thought the dvd rom was NG. The unit is a compaq presario v2000. I have seen these laptops have a high rate of mobo failure. I'm hoping thats not the case.
The symptoms:
upon startup it goes to the hp/centrino screen then it goes to a flashing curser in the top left corner for a few seconds. Finally it rests on a black screen and tells me to remove any disks/media and restart.
I heard you guys like a challenge so if thats true and anyone is willing to help. I would appreciate it. (So would my son
)I'm pretty puter savvy and can follow instructions....I just don't know where to begin.
Thank you in advance to anyone who may give this a shot.
OS: winxp pro
cpu: 1.4 pentium m
ram: 512mb
Oh and the dvd rom doesn't appear to work. When I do put a cd in, the black screen with the flashing curser appears to hang a lil longer.
