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Al
Flightless Bird
I dropped my Advent 5401 a couple of weeks ago - only from about a foot
above a carpeted floor. Ever since then, I have had increasingly bad
problems. The laptop started powering off unexpectedly. Sometimes it
would freeze up. Sometimes I'd get the blue screen. After powering
itself off, it would sometimes take many attemts to get it to boot up.
These symptoms got prgressively worse; now I can't get it to boot at
all.
My local computer repair shop said the hard drive is OK. He tride
removing and replacing the ram chips but it made no difference. He said
I might have damaged the motherboard.
Is there anthing else I might try, before resigning myself to an
expensive repair job?
Many thanks,
Al
above a carpeted floor. Ever since then, I have had increasingly bad
problems. The laptop started powering off unexpectedly. Sometimes it
would freeze up. Sometimes I'd get the blue screen. After powering
itself off, it would sometimes take many attemts to get it to boot up.
These symptoms got prgressively worse; now I can't get it to boot at
all.
My local computer repair shop said the hard drive is OK. He tride
removing and replacing the ram chips but it made no difference. He said
I might have damaged the motherboard.
Is there anthing else I might try, before resigning myself to an
expensive repair job?
Many thanks,
Al