Laptop problem

[Chris1.4RT]

I've been given a Packard Bell Easynote R1938 laptop to see if I can fix.

Upon switching on, I get a grey boot image saying Packard Bell with press F2 to Bios and F8 for boot options.

Then nothing happens, it won't post or boot.

I press F2 and F8 nothing happens.

Inserting a recovery disc or XP disc, it spins but nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

 

[aaronc]

Hard drive sounds like its dead...

 

[Rufstuf]

^ As above, sounds like radiant bad sectors in the hard drive I'm afraid.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Doesn't sound like HDD to me, surely an error message would appear about not being able to boot from the hard drive or not seeing it. I'd say a BIOS problem at a guess.

 

[Rufstuf]

Does'nt always display an error message. This exact problem happened to my old Tiny laptop, no error message, didnt know what was up. I took the hard drive out and put it in my Packard bell laptop, and got an error message right away ( corrupt HAL DLL.32 file or something ). The hard drive was fooked.