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Yup. Brand new top of the range, Athlon 64 mobile, 1 gig of RAM blah blah blah, XP home edition. Was all OK at first.
Battery ran out mid install of something. Amateurish I know, but it wasn't me. That stopped it booting up without it wanting the hard drive checked. This took an absolute age and frequently crashed. Lots of problems. Today, battery is fully charged, it wants to scan the hard drive, I let it, done in two minutes or so, Windows boots.
So some crap got messed up. New issue is that it crashes and has major issues with operation whilst being plugged into the mains. And it didn't originally.
Any ideas? What is the power systems built into, the OS or BIOS? I can't figure out what the problem is exactly, but it certainly has issues with being run off of the mains. It charges up and stuff, when you have it off. But running it when on mains power is not happening.
So, is this a Windows issue that could be fixed by a reinstall (even though disk check gives a clean bill of health) or is this a hardware "oh- crap-something-blew-up-inside" issue?
Any help would be appreciated.
Battery ran out mid install of something. Amateurish I know, but it wasn't me. That stopped it booting up without it wanting the hard drive checked. This took an absolute age and frequently crashed. Lots of problems. Today, battery is fully charged, it wants to scan the hard drive, I let it, done in two minutes or so, Windows boots.
So some crap got messed up. New issue is that it crashes and has major issues with operation whilst being plugged into the mains. And it didn't originally.
Any ideas? What is the power systems built into, the OS or BIOS? I can't figure out what the problem is exactly, but it certainly has issues with being run off of the mains. It charges up and stuff, when you have it off. But running it when on mains power is not happening.
So, is this a Windows issue that could be fixed by a reinstall (even though disk check gives a clean bill of health) or is this a hardware "oh- crap-something-blew-up-inside" issue?
Any help would be appreciated.
NB, try to remove the battery and run it soley on the power lead and see what happens. There are so many issues with laptop batteries these days you won't believe. If it works fine then get a replacement battery from where you bought the laptop from.
If problem still exist, check the bios and see where it's booting windows from and make sure it is the HD.
If that's ok run the laptop in safe mode, when you are in windows run a full scan disk and check where it says "auto repair prob" or something along that lines. It should then detect and remove any errors that may have possibly occured to your HD when your battery died. Then try it again.
If you then get the same problems I suggest you take it back where you got it from and say "it was like this when it came" :)
Goodluck.
If problem still exist, check the bios and see where it's booting windows from and make sure it is the HD.
If that's ok run the laptop in safe mode, when you are in windows run a full scan disk and check where it says "auto repair prob" or something along that lines. It should then detect and remove any errors that may have possibly occured to your HD when your battery died. Then try it again.
If you then get the same problems I suggest you take it back where you got it from and say "it was like this when it came" :)
Goodluck.
Yup. Brand new top of the range, Athlon 64 mobile, 1 gig of RAM blah blah blah, XP home edition. Was all OK at first.
Battery ran out mid install of something. Amateurish I know, but it wasn't me. That stopped it booting up without it wanting the hard drive checked. This took an absolute age and frequently crashed. Lots of problems. Today, battery is fully charged, it wants to scan the hard drive, I let it, done in two minutes or so, Windows boots.
So some crap got messed up. New issue is that it crashes and has major issues with operation whilst being plugged into the mains. And it didn't originally.
Any ideas? What is the power systems built into, the OS or BIOS? I can't figure out what the problem is exactly, but it certainly has issues with being run off of the mains. It charges up and stuff, when you have it off. But running it when on mains power is not happening.
So, is this a Windows issue that could be fixed by a reinstall (even though disk check gives a clean bill of health) or is this a hardware "oh- crap-something-blew-up-inside" issue?
Any help would be appreciated.
Battery ran out mid install of something. Amateurish I know, but it wasn't me. That stopped it booting up without it wanting the hard drive checked. This took an absolute age and frequently crashed. Lots of problems. Today, battery is fully charged, it wants to scan the hard drive, I let it, done in two minutes or so, Windows boots.
So some crap got messed up. New issue is that it crashes and has major issues with operation whilst being plugged into the mains. And it didn't originally.
Any ideas? What is the power systems built into, the OS or BIOS? I can't figure out what the problem is exactly, but it certainly has issues with being run off of the mains. It charges up and stuff, when you have it off. But running it when on mains power is not happening.
So, is this a Windows issue that could be fixed by a reinstall (even though disk check gives a clean bill of health) or is this a hardware "oh- crap-something-blew-up-inside" issue?
Any help would be appreciated.