Laptop won't start up.

[TOFTHELADS]

Good man.
Are you familiar with Bitcoin old chap?

Coins... no no I was going to pay you cash in £50 notes, £10k in coins is much to heavy for me to carry !!! I think you are trying to trick me Mr Noeye

 

[yeseye]

Coins... no no I was going to pay you cash in £50 notes, £10k in coins is much to heavy for me to carry !!! I think you are trying to trick me Mr Noeye

Be 12k if it’s cash.

 

[blumoon]

Do you have another computer you can put files on and a USB cable? Have you tried an external mouse? Have you tried putting it into BIOS instead of safe mode?

When I fire it up I just keep getting the blue circle and the cursor won't click on anything. It will move around the screen but when I click it on the start icon it won't open it :-(

 

[nellyonthewing]

Windows updates bugger up more computers than hackers.

 

[aguero93:20]

When I fire it up I just keep getting the blue circle and the cursor won't click on anything. It will move around the screen but when I click it on the start icon it won't open it :-(

Hold down either F1 or F2 as you hit the power button to turn the computer on. That will bring you into BIOS which lets you check the health of your hardware. If your hard drive is functional then your data shouldn't be at risk and a wipe won't be an issue.

 

[blumoon]

I'm in the bios but haven't a Scooby doo what to do ....I'm going to fook this up ain't I

 

[aguero93:20]

I'm in the bios but haven't a Scooby doo what to do ....I'm going to fook this up ain't I

It's still reading the memory, so the hard drive is fine I'd say, go into advanced and see if there's any more references to HDD/SSD.

 

[blumoon]

It's still reading the memory, so the hard drive is fine I'd say, go into advanced and see if there's any more references to HDD/SSD.

Advanced

 

[aguero93:20]

Advanced

No, nothing there. I've had hard drive problems before though and the BIOS won't even read that the hard drive is there, should be simple to transfer all your files etc to another computer and wipe that one, before reinstalling Windows.

 

[blumoon]

No, nothing there. I've had hard drives before though and the BIOS won't even read that the hard drive is there, should be simple to transfer all your files etc to another computer and wipe that one, before reinstalling Windows.

Cheers mate. Appreciate the help. I'll power it off and give it to a geek to sort it for me. Thanks again