I just sent this email to a friend, I'm trying to get as much advice as fast as possible because I really need my laptop for tonight. lol. If you can help, that would be fabulous!
I'm having serious laptop issues and was hoping you could possibly help? It runs Vista. I haven't had it on for a couple days, so I went in my room, plugged it in (it died from not being plugged in) and turned it on. I get an error saying, "Windows has failed to start." and gives me two booting options. I can run a repair thing, or start windows normally. When I run the repair, it goes to another screen that says, "Windows is loading files". It loads the files, then tries to load, but it doesn't. It just goes to a blue screen, and I have my cursor, and that's it. (Not a BSOD type of blue screen, just like... the background on my desktop type blue.) So I turn it off and try again. I tried hitting F11 which is supposed to let me reinstall Windows (I did it once before) but it did nothing. So I hit F8 which gave me a bunch of boot options. I tried Safe Mode, it didn't work. It loaded, made some noise, then I got a BSOD that flashed so quick, I barely noticed it was there before it was gone again, and the computer automatically restarted itself. I tried something else, too, but I can't remember what it's called. Last Known something? Basically the last known place where the computer was working fine. That didn't work either.
A few months ago, I put new ram in. Went from 1g to 2g. So I took my new ram out and threw in my old ram, thinking that was the problem, and it won't work either. But I get a black screen with my cursor instead of a blue screen. *sigh* I have no system restore discs or anything. F11 won't work. I can't afford the $60+ dollars it'll cost me to take it somewhere. So I was going to see if you had any ideas? Thanks in advance.