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Latop turns off, but only once at startup
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Posted October 5, 2012 at 8:12PM
Hi folks,
My usually shuts down when starting up, but only once and then will startup. It doesn't shut down when up and running. I swapped my hard drives over from my son's laptop. Could this have caused the issue?
Any thoughts welcome
Cheers
Tom
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Posted October 6, 2012 at 2:49PM
Hello wee Eddie, both are Lenovo, one is a c 200 and the other a n200. They both run on windows 7. I hadn't reinstalled the os as only mine had experienced problems although when I switched them they both obviously loaded new device drivers. Is it likely to be best to install the os again?
In terms of finertys post. I have no issue with being asked for information, I do have a problem with a post that comes across as grumpy and sarcastic. This is the beginners four and as such people are going to be make errors through ommission. If I had been a first timer I doubt I would have come back.
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Posted October 6, 2012 at 12:06PM
Strangely reply really and to be honest a little rude? If it is relevent then feel free to tell me that this is important information. If you don't want to help then don't answer, simple as that. But don't post criticism. I have always found that this forum as being helpful, and indeed have replied to people to help them. You don't appear to be one of those individuals. In which case I have no desire to have you posting!
If anyone else wants to help and the model will be of assistance then I'm happy to provide it!
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Posted October 6, 2012 at 2:28PM
boybrown: The answer is almost certainly - Yes. Unless your Son's laptop is exactly the same as yours.
By the way: finerty's request is perfectly reasonable.
Without knowledge of the nature of the laptop in question, no one can give you more than rather generalised comments like the one I have made above.
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Posted October 6, 2012 at 11:47AM
Why is that when most people post about the laptop that they dont use a little common sense. They think were magicians and they presume and assume we know the make and model of the laptop your using
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Posted October 6, 2012 at 5:56PM
The Hard Drive is the Problem, it should be in the Laptop it came with. As Windows is registered to the individual Laptop, not any laptop or desktop
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Posted October 6, 2012 at 8:12PM
Hi wood chip, does that mean it needs a reinstall and will that sort it?
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Posted October 6, 2012 at 9:36PM
No it will not sort it, you need to put the correct drive back in your PC
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Posted October 7, 2012 at 9:17AM
Both laptops will have an OEM version of Windows 7, and as Woodchip states, are tied to the motherboard of each laptop. You could use the recovery discs to restore to factory settings but you would need to do that on both laptops. Not really worth it I think. Have a look in SYSTEM in Control Panel and check what it says under Windows activation. You might find that both laptops will get a black screen stating that Windows isn't genuine after 30 days.
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Posted October 7, 2012 at 12:56PM
I'm interested:
What caused you to change Hard Drives?
What have you done with the one that was in your Lappy?
As far as I can ascertain, the best solution to your problem, is to re-install the original Drive and start to work on whatever problem that started this whole thing off.
We would be happy to help
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Posted October 7, 2012 at 12:58PM
I'm curious as to why you swapped the harddrives over in the first place as you only seem to have had the problem since you did that. Therefore put them back where they belong.
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