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Hey guys, I recently opened up my laptop and replaced my HDD with an SSD. After I put everything back together, the laptop won’t even attempt to boot. I opened it back up to ensure that everything was connected to the motherboard properly and it all checks out. I’m not sure what happened and need some help saving my laptop. Thanks
Hi, Try a power refresh and check if this resolves the problem. Here’s how to do this: Remove the battery from the laptop Press and hold the laptop’s Power button for 30 seconds to drain any residual power from the laptop. Connect and switch on the charger to the laptop and try to start the laptop. (leave the battery out at this stage) If the laptop doesn’t start, switch off the charger and remove the SSD and try again. At least to see if it starts. If it still doesn’t start, switch off and disconnect the charger, and then remove the RTC battery (CMOS battery) from the laptop and press and hold the laptop’s power button for 30 seconds. Here’s a link to the service manual taken from this webpage. Scroll to p.45 to view the necessary pre-requisite steps and then the procedure to remove/replace the RTC battery. Take note of the orientation of the battery before you remove it, so that you re-insert it the correct way. Then re-insert the RTC battery, reconnect and switch on the charger and try to start the laptop. If the laptop starts, assuming that you haven’t got an OS loaded into the SSD, once it gets to the BIOS screen about no boot device found (or similar message) shutdown the laptop in the normal manner. Switch off the charger and reinsert the battery into the laptop. Switch on the charger and then try to turn on the laptop and check what happens.
best thing to try is download you old OS + boot loader info on a flash drive or and a portable hard drive connect them to you laptop and attempt to access your boot-loader menu on your laptop if the problem still occurs consult the manufacture WARNING YOU HAVE VOID YOU WARRANTY IF ONE WAS IN PLACE SO IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ASK THEM FOR REPAIR OPTIONS YOU MAY BE DENIED OR YOU MAY HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL FULL REPAIRS
Some long shots: Remove the battery and power on only with power from power adapter. (ooops @Jayeff already suggested it). Keep battery out.Try connecting to an external monitor and turn power on.Plug in a USB Keyboard to a USB plug and turn power on.
Hi Austin,if your computer won’t boot up at all,follow these steps,first try checking if the SSD has a operating system like windows 10 home,update your bios,and last replace the cmos battery,if it doesn’t have a OS then here is the download link to windows ten,download from another pc,use the media creation tool link- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software… And for drivers use this link https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/sel…. I hope you found this helpful. Sincerely windowsfan7,and remove battery keep charger and hold power button,before doing,remove battery and ac adapter and hold power to drain any leftover electric fluids. Try disconnecting any drives that makes your computer crash or unbootable,and last,try reverting back to the HDD,or replace the battery
Have you tried reinstalling Windows 10 on the SSD? Or you may try removing all external devices to see whether it will work. Otherwise, you can boot in safe mode to check if there are any problematic apps or outdated drivers that lead to this case.
