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try this.

If it's a laptop, take the battery out and leave it for a day.

If it's a pc, take out the mains and leave it for a day.

Then try to switch it on.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 02:13:19
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Yes, that can help also. Although I don't know how (i've seen it working). Last solution would be to take hdd out, put it in someone's else pc and back up the data.

[ This Message was edited by: blayv on 2005-06-01 18:02 ]
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Posted: 2005-06-01 02:33:29
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AAAAARRRRGHHHH! Don't stick your recovery CD in!!!!! You'll lose everything unless it has a non destructive repair option. Even if it has, I'd still be cautious if you've got stuff on there that you REALLY don't want to lose.

As the previous poster suggested, the first thing you need to do is either remove the Hard Drive and install it as a slave drive in a different PC so that you can access the files or, as you suggested, take it to a local computer repair shop. They'll hook the drive up to an external hard drive caddy and put everything onto CD / DVD for you, and it shouldn't cost lot (we charge £20 - £30 depending on the amount of data).

Then you can use your restore disk to do a full reinstall, which is always best in these cases anyway. Don't send it back to mesh, they'll lose all of your data!

I don't think removing the CMOS battery or leaving the power off for a while will help in this case, it sounds like an OS fault rather than a BIOS fault to me.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 09:57:52
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thanks very much for the above replies. I think i will go to a local repair shop 2moro. Hopefully they will be able to save everything,

Next on my shopping list is a new seperate hard drive so i can store my documents on it and just my OS on the other.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 17:13:53
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