Netbook not booting up

[Umbreon]

I brought my netbook about almost a year ago (dec 2009)

Today, I was on youtube, about to see a video, and all of the sudden, the whole PC became unresponsive. Then got a little frustrated, and then now the whole PC is frozen. Mouse won't move. And because of that, I got REALLY mad (since I had unfinished work there) and banged on the keyboard couple times. Now I hear some clanking noise and then mouse moved a bit but then frozed again. I had no choice but to reboot forcefully. Then now my laptop isn't booting up. Shows the dell logo and then its all black (Supposed to load a loading bar)

Reset it again and then still black. Now, WHAT THE FU*K HAPPENED TO MY LAPTOP?!?!?! IT DIDN'T EVEN LAST A YEAR. NEXT TIME I BUY A LAPTOP, MAKE SURE ITS NOT A NETBOOK.
The only programs I have opened is Google Chrome, GIMP, and thats all.

SOMEONE, PLEEEAAASE HELP

 

[InfiniteJest]

You banged on the keyboard, you probably broke something. Not the netbook's fault.

 

[DarkKnight]

That "clank" noise was probably a harddrive disk, as well, which means your data is now unrecoverable.

My advice: MacBook Pro or other Mac.
Alternative is getting a new harddrive, possibly solid-state.

 

[Umbreon]

I do have anger issues (from a recent mental illness) but I didn't bang it that hard, just a small pound 😕

When the clanking noise occurred, thats when I made my first bang

And no, no macbooks. Can't afford them ATM

 

[Joe 2]

I've gone ahead and moved this topic to the "Computers & The Internet" board. 🙂

 

[Mr. Duck]

ok, banging on it might not off been a good idea, try asking on a pc help forum or take it to a store

 

[MissTake]

Have you tried hitting F1/2/3//4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12, Esc, Delete, space bar etc while re-booting?

Try to get to a command prompt and run a CHKDSK, this will fix any errors on the bootable drives, it worked for my daughters laptop 😉

 

[KeithSECTalk]

Have you tried hitting F1/2/3//4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12, Esc, Delete, space bar etc while re-booting?

Try to get to a command prompt and run a CHKDSK, this will fix any errors on the bootable drives, it worked for my daughters laptop 😉

This, and/or try to restore the computer with a disk. If the keyboard is unresponsive try a USB keyboard to restore it.

 

[JohnC]

Is the BIOS loading? If it is its a harddrive problem. If not it'll be your CPU.

It doubt it is your harddrive. As if you did only give it a light thump it shouldn't do damaged.

 

[USHost247]

Hard drives are pretty hard to damage while inside the computer. They are inside a metal casing. The little thump could have been breaking a wire from the motherboard or something.

When booting up, continuously tapping F8 to see if you can get to a menu. Select last known good configuration to see if It will restore itself. If it still doesn't work, try using a boot disc. If it cant boot from a disc, then it is a hardware issue.

 

[Ashish92]

but I didn't bang it that hard, just a small pound 😕

depends on the place you pounded and the pressure of thump. the top and bottom of keyboard portion is very delicate in netbooks.

try the advice others have given and if not works then you will have to go to maintenance i guess.

 

[froggyboy604]

I once had bad RAM which made my laptop suddenly freeze. After I cleaned the gold contacts with rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab/Q-tip. My Laptop booted fine. It turns out my RAM had dirty RAM contacts, or it became unseated.

 

[Umbreon]

The DELL logo showed when I turn on the PC. but after that it turns black.

 

[Ashish92]

The DELL logo showed when I turn on the PC. but after that it turns black.

i haven't got any experience with Laptop hardware so can't tell there but did you tried booting it up through a external HDD ?

 

[DarkKnight]

I can tell you straight out that if the proprietary logo, in this case, Dell logo loads, then the system's BIOS is intact.

(I may be a Mac guy, but I've had PC's.)

I'm still betting heavily on the problem being that your "thump" hit right above the harddrive and forced one of the hard disks out of line, crashing the system on a permanent basis.

Take it to a local computer repair shop and have them take a look at it.

I'll bet you $100 FP that the problem is your harddrive.

 

[Brad]

The problem is the Harddrive no point in betting, so the harddrive break? When you hit it what happened?

 

[Ashish92]

The problem is the Harddrive no point in betting, so the harddrive break? When you hit it what happened?

It's hard to break a Hard Drive from outside.

It must have slipped from it's place like Dark Knight said.

 

[ocmseo]

Do you have hardware device inserted in your notebook? If none, maybe you have a problem on your boot sector on your HardDisk. Try to boot your laptop using network to fully identify what really the problem

 

[Raymond]

Should of got a PC.