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I have a POS compaq Presario F500, and after dealing with faulty motherboard issues that a lot of people have had with this laptop, it finally killed over and wouldn't boot up anymore.
It wouldn't even make it to POST. I would just turn it on, it would have a blank screen for 15 seconds, then restart and repeat the process. I even tore it apart just to put some thermal past on the processor, hoping it would work (it didn't).
Then I read in a forum where someone could get there laptop to boot up by putting pressure on the keyboard in a certain area (didn't work either). So tonight I got desperate, figuring that It was already broken, and I stood on the keyboard while turning it on, and IT STARTED UP. Now the laptop starts up every time and I'm using it now to make this thread.
Cliff notes: I stood on my broken laptop and now it works fine.
So how have you guys fixed your computer, or anything in a weird way that shouldn't have worked?
I once opened a hard drive that would not spin. When opened, I could see that the platter assembly was just wiggling back and forth. I put the tip of my finger on the top of the shaft and nudged it in the normal direction and the disk started spinning.
Figured it would probably stick again once the power was off so I turned off the power, waited 10 seconds and turned it back on. Disk spun up just fine. Did that 3 or 4 more times and it was good each time.
Buttoned up the enclosure and re-installed the drive. Good to go.
I once opened a hard drive that would not spin. When opened, I could see that the platter assembly was just wiggling back and forth. I put the tip of my finger on the top of the shaft and nudged it in the normal direction and the disk started spinning.
Figured it would probably stick again once the power was off so I turned off the power, waited 10 seconds and turned it back on. Disk spun up just fine. Did that 3 or 4 more times and it was good each time.
Buttoned up the enclosure and re-installed the drive. Good to go.
Pure luck if you actually opened up the casing for the HD. Normally = failure.
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I come from a 2jz world. Regardless of the argument, a stock Z is slow as balls.
How have you fixed your computer?
