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I'm not too technical so please explain to a novice.

When I was using my laptop, it suddenly shut down. Before it shut down, I
noticed an error message but before I could read it the screen turned black.

I took it to one of the computer stores for diagnosis. They said it needed
a motherboard and would cost $800. So I bought a new laptop. Now I'm not
sure they are correct.

I urgently need the material on the old laptop (only one year old). Someone
told me I could connect it to another monitor and get it that way? Is this
so? If so, how? What do I use to connect? Is there anything else that
needs to be done?

Is there anything else I could do?

Do you know of any other reason the screen would go blank but the power
lights are on?

Please email me if possible as I'll never find this page again.

Thanks all.

Deserate

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I would have to buy a new monitor. What does it need.
 
Hi

What if any error messages do you get when trying trying to boot the Laptop?

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Will Denny said:
Hi

What if any error messages do you get when trying trying to boot the Laptop?

-- I can't boot. Nothing happens. The screen is black but the power lights on on.


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I'm not too technical so please explain to a novice.

When I was using my laptop, it suddenly shut down. Before it shut down, I
noticed an error message but before I could read it the screen turned
black.

I took it to one of the computer stores for diagnosis. They said it
needed
a motherboard and would cost $800. So I bought a new laptop. Now I'm not
sure they are correct.

I urgently need the material on the old laptop (only one year old).
Someone
told me I could connect it to another monitor and get it that way? Is
this
so?
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No. If the motherboard has failed, another monitor won't help at all.

However if the hard drive isn't damaged, you can take it out, put it in an
external USB enclosure and read its contents on your new computer.

Consider yourself lucky that the motherboard failed and the drive is OK. If
there is ever material you urgently need on a drive, and that material isn't
backed up somewhere external to the computer, you are flirting with
disaster.

Please email me if possible as I'll never find this page again.
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Sorry, no. Most of us here won't provide E-mail help. Problems you have
finding "this page" are because you are using the awful web interface to
read this newsgroup--it's the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method
there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook
Express, which comes with Windows.
See http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
 
Why not connect an external monitor and test with that? Or buy an enclosure
at CompUSA or BestBuy and insert the old HD in there to get your info.

Or remove the new HD from the new notebook and test by installing the old HD
and see if it boots in the new Notebook
 
New Orleans Novice said:
Why not connect an external monitor and test with that? Or buy an enclosure
at CompUSA or BestBuy and insert the old HD in there to get your info.

Or remove the new HD from the new notebook and test by installing the old HD
and see if it boots in the new Notebook

I don't have a second monitor. I would have to buy one. How do you connect it?
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What is an enclosure? Also, I don't know how to remove the hard drive. As
I said, I am a novice. Could you provide details on:

How to connect to another monitor
What is an enclosure?
How do you remove a hard drive

Thanks so much.
 
New Orleans Novice said:
Why not connect an external monitor and test with that? Or buy an enclosure
at CompUSA or BestBuy and insert the old HD in there to get your info.

Or remove the new HD from the new notebook and test by installing the old HD
and see if it boots in the new Notebook

One is an HP and one is a Toshiba...can you do this? Also, could I connect the old laptop to the new laptop and read it that way?
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I did not know how to remove a HD or Keyboard so I went to the PC vendor's
site and DL'ed the manuals, tips, PDF, etc. which shows step by step.

Then I went to Google and CompUSA and BestBuy.com and typed in, "enclosure"
and it brought up the specs, info. etc.

The is the 1st hard drive enclosure I have ever bought.
 
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