Laptop help

[myrjon]

the motherboard is shot or video card shot. is there a plug on side to add
External Monitor

 

[MadReefer]

Yes

 

[myrjon]

if you have a monitor try to plug it in on laptop

 

[myrjon]

if it works video in laptop is dead

 

[MadReefer]

If I had a monitor to test with. During my move tossed all that stuff out.

 

[myrjon]

i have one

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

Still think your issue is your hard drive due to no activity on the hard drive light. If the video card was dead the hard drive light would still be active. Also is it windows 10? If so Windows 10 uses fastboot so you may not see anything on the screen as it try to load the OS. If you pull the hard drive you should at least get an error message saying there no boot device

 

[MadReefer]

It was Win8 but auto upgrade to 10.

 

[ecam]

This happened to me when I upgraded an older computer from 7 to 10. 10 is not compatible with that computer. Ur going to have reset it back to old windows version.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

It came with Win8 so it can run Win10. Win10 runs better than Win8 mainly on older/slower PCs.

Also it would had updated to Win10 awhile ago not just recently.

 

[MadReefer]

So wife was messing around and turned the laptop on this morning and it booted right up.
No clue what happened.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

That's good. I would still run a test on the hard drive. If you know the make of the hard drive you can download free test tools to see if the drive might be going

 

[RiverSwami]

First thing I would do now that it's up and running is back up my files ASAP (before it freezes again). Then, at least you won't lose anything if you have to wipe your laptop and start over or replace it or the HD. Run a deep scan for viruses and malware (Avast, Malwarebytes, Bit Defender, etc.) since you ran it without updating with patches for quite a while and Win10 has known vulnerabilities. Also, check your credit reports for unwanted activity. Ugh.

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[lefkonj]

If you are a GMAIL user I would get google drive to sync all your files/photos/etc ASAP. That laptop will most likely stop again. While I agree with the scanning for malware, that can tax a machine pretty hard, so backup backup backup. Did I mention backup? This way when you get a new computer you just have to sync google drive back to your new laptop, which is all automated.