I found a Laptop, and was playing with it today. Trying to see if its worth repairing. When I push the start up botton, the start up logo Compaq screen pops up, then everything goes black. I can hear a weird scratching sound, then it restarts. Never goes past the blackness. The Keyboard looks like it was beaten with a stick or something. Few keys are left, and the metal under it is bent. The mousepad doesn't respond, and the CD drive sounds like metal rubbing against metal. Monitor screen is fine, from what I can tell.
What do you think? This sounds beyond repair or should I have a pro take a look? Any info. would help us out. take care and thank you.
It looks like a great machine, but treated horribly! If it's cheaper to save it, then to buy a new one. I'd like to save her. Don't want to see such a great thing go to complete waste. If any more info. is needed about this problem, ask. ^^ & ><
update: After leaving it alone plugged in for a while. It stopped restarting and is now displaying a message. "A disk read error occurred Please Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" Over a solid black screen.
update: After restarting as stated above, some sort of boot-system flashed. Wasn't able to read it all. But that caught my eye. Now all I can see is "Operating System not found" over a solid black screen.
(Interesting playing with this laptop, Like trying to make an egg hatch. ^^)
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