Hp Laptop just took a dump on me...not having a good week.

[Blackout]

Fired up my laptop and was running fine. Went to get my phone from my bed room where was charging and on my return to the computer, it had a black screen and a curser at the top left. I rebooted the computer and it just seems to want to keep rebooting over and over after it reaches the BIOS screen. I really didn't have any time to mess with this today and now I am stuck completely on my tablet. At least Android operating system is reliable...

[Dirtyd0g]

Does it show anything, like hard drive. I have replaced hard drives in a few of those...Gotta get the hard drive from HP

[Goober]

XP, Vista or 7? Have you tried to see if it will boot in safe mode?

[inferno50]

I've ha two brand new ones do that this month. Never did get them working again. I'm getting tired of returning this damn thing to SAMs club I always heard good about Jo but this is my first one and I'm pretty pissed about it

[Jake]

I've had to replace the hard drive on my HP. I've heard from others with the 640 G having similar problems. what model and hard drive?

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

This is why i'm scared of laptops. I'd rather deal with a desktop so i can at least easily repair it.

[Rick93coupe]

If you replace it, dont buy a Dell.

[mwaller5672]

What is worth buying. Acer isn't very good. I think they try to make things so cheap none are real good. I carry lenovo for work. They last a long time but it has a hefty price. Any more I just buy an extended warrenty for any electronics and it has paid off numerous times on cameras and computers. I bought a macbook pro for my daughter and she seems to like that. I really like my ipad. I think computers are like doctors and mechanics. If you talk to enough people somebody will have a horror story. I had a deal with the old provident bank that when a company filed bankruptcy I got the computers. They had a leasing divison.I would get a van full of laptops. I got so use to working on them and got pretty good. People still ask me for laptops. When they sold out I lost my connection. I made a ton of money. GET THE EXTENDED WARRENTY and buy what you want.

[redfirepearlgt]

Agreed Lenovo (formally IBM Thinkpad) is a fantastic laptop. Microcenter has an i5 series for $499.00. They have i3 series Lenovos for less.

http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.phtml?sortby=pricelow&N=4294967291%2B4294965544

[Goober]

I just bought a Toshiba from Best Buy for $428 out the door. 4gb ram, 500 gb hdd, AMD quad core and ATI offboard gpu.

[jktruckin06]

Guys i am on my second acer since 2006. they were both 500 dollar walmart specials. i don't use it for any gaming or mass storage, just internet and maybe 40 gigs of media.

my wifes macbook is pretty solid too. since 09 only had a problem with the charging port and they fixed it in store free of charge a month after the warranty was up.

[Mista Bone]

Lenevo/IBM or nothing.

An i5 is on the list for next batch of toy purchase.

[DSSKing68]

Toshiba laptops FTW!!

I have been using them since 1997, and other then my own stupid stuff, I haven't had many problems at all.

[Blackout]

Ok, The laptop is back up and running. I went through the coding and found that a Microsoft framework update had corrupted the boot sector of the drive that told the computer to boot windows. Instead it was stuck in reboot. I took out the drive and installed it into a external HDD Case and booted it up on an older computer. I had found that it repartitioned most of the Hard drive and left un-allocated and it only formated 75 GB of info for windows restore. So I had to delete all the partitions except for the original Recovery partition and start over with a system restore. It worked but only took me 2 days of scratching my head and wondering what the hell happened.

Thanks for the support on my rantings, I have had a couple HP laptops and had pretty good luck with them, but this one just about got me fighting mad. Microsoft are idiots! too many updates.

thanks again!