Laptop Won't Boot In To Windows

[ell470]

Extra screws is always a pain.

What I usually do for example:

For all the screws on the bottom of the latop, take a piece of paper and sketch a rough outline of the laptop and mark where a screw exists. When that screw comes out it gets taped to that mark on the paper. Then do that for the insides as well. Makes it easier if I take apart a laptop then one of my techs has to put it back together.

Haha! Yeah, that's a great idea! I always put the screws in a pile & always end up with 1 or 2 that I know is from the laptop/playstation/wii or whatever, but doesn't fit anywhere

I'll try your tip the next time I tear something apart

 

[Robin]

Thanks for all the recommendations, when I have some time I'l get round to trying them out but if I do in the end reinstall can someone tell me how Vista with all the latest service packs and updates compares to Windows 7?

Basically has MS over the years undone all the terrible problems to bring it up to a level of decency?

 

[ell470]

Thanks for all the recommendations, when I have some time I'l get round to trying them out but if I do in the end reinstall can someone tell me how Vista with all the latest service packs and updates compares to Windows 7?

Basically has MS over the years undone all the terrible problems to bring it up to a level of decency?

Vista is pure garbage regardless of service packs compared to Win 7.

That's my opinion anyway, Win 7 is easier on the system & just flows sooo much better. Sure Win 7 has it's share of things that annoy me, but what versions of Windows doesn't?

In my honest opinion Win XP & Win 7 is the best versions they have made & Win 7 is far superior to XP

 

[Negrumir]

Vista.

Hey, I found your problem.

In my honest opinion Win XP & Win 7 is the best versions they have made & Win 7 is far superior to XP

Having worked on probably over a thousand or so computers, I can say easily that Vista is the biggest piece of garbage.

It's clunky, redundant, fragile, and overall worse than any other choice for operating system.

If you can put windows 7 on, I recommend you do it.
For one thing, it's much less taxing on your hardware. It'll boot and run faster than Vista on any system.

I've also found it to be significantly more stable. Lastly, they at least give you the option to turn off those annoying "Windows needs your permission..." pop ups. Which at least gets it back to where XP was in terms of user-friendliness.

 

[Robin]

Vista wasn't my choice, the laptop happened to come with it! all my other computers are either running 7 or XP.

 

[Infinital-NG]

You can turn those permissions off in Vista as well, secondly those "annoying" permissions are a very nice feature that an average user should keep on if they don't know what they are doing.

 

[Niss]

Hi Guys a bit Off-Topic but will these PC Specs run GTR2 and F1 2011 at high Settings?

PC:
Intel HD Graphics 2000
3,1 GHz
512MB Graphics Card
4 GB RAM

 

[ell470]

You can turn those permissions off in Vista as well, secondly those "annoying" permissions are a very nice feature that an average user should keep on if they don't know what they are doing.

Second that!

The average user has no idea what runs in the background and should have them enabled.

 

[Negrumir]

You can turn those permissions off in Vista as well, secondly those "annoying" permissions are a very nice feature that an average user should keep on if they don't know what they are doing.

Hmm, perhaps they added that later with a Service pack or something.
All I know is that I searched around for a long while and found no way to turn them off on Vista. It took me all of two minutes to find how to turn them off the first time I used windows 7.

 

[Robin]

UPDATE

So I turn on this laptop which has had this black screen after windows loading issue and suddenly today it works and goes straight to the desktop, so not a corruption issue at all! man I hate computers!

However it seems to be a display driver or hardware issue because every time I boot the screen is off centre (bios enlarged so its cut off at the right and bottom sides).

When it gets to windows the desktop its shifted over to the bottom right so about 1 cm of black is showing on the top and about 5 cm on the left hand side.

I think the display driver has selected an external monitor as the main monitor and is displaying it on the laptops screen. If I connect it to a monitor and swap the two around it solves the problem but every time I power the laptop on its own its stuck on the same problem again.

Screen one is listed as 'Digital Flat Panel' and screen two is listed as 'Default Monitor' so something clearly has gone messed up because screen two should be the laptop screen.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Robin.