Hello,
I've been having a problem with my notebook for 2 months, before i start talking about the issues, here's the specs of the notebook:
G62-340US
AMD Athlon II Dual-Core Processor P340 (2.2GHz, 1MB L2 Cache)
320GB (5400RPM) HDD
6-Cell47WHr Lithium-Ion Battery
AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Graphics
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
(HDD = Hard Drive, By the way!)
2 months ago, i was using my notebook and all of the sudent my laptop freezes, i let it stay like that for 25 min, since it was still freezed, i decided to turn the notebook off, so i did, when i turn it on and its booting up, my computer said that it
had no hard drive, i was looking everywhere for an awnser to this, i thought that the PCB from the HDD was damaged and neded to be replaced (because i tested the HDD with other notebook's i have and it didn't seem like to respond), so i ordered an functional
& working PCB for the HDD. 4 days ago the PCB arived home, for my surprise when i replaced the PCB with the new one i got, the notebook was acting the same, so i tested other HDD's with my notebook and the other HDD's worked with my notebook, there i realised
that it was the HDD that was from this notebook, so i keep searching for solutions and then i notice that it was the BIOS, so i had to reset the BIOS, but when i reboot it, i was greeted with another message that goes like this:
Windows Boot Manager
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
File: /boot/bcd
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: an error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
i was looking for the solution to this and then i found it (this error is becuase i was switching the HDD to see if it worked), so this notebook has it's own system repair, so you don't need to create or buy an repair disc, the solution was to go in the
command prompt and start following
these steps (click the link on the text), but then when i reach to the "bootrec /fixmbr" and "bootrec /fixboot" step, i rebooted the notebook for then to open again the command prompt, but when i press F10 for the system repair (in there you can use the
command prompt), i was greeted with the same message again, it had the same file, status and info. Since i could not use the system repair from the notebook i needed to create an repair disc or have an installation disc (which my notebook didn't had an repair
disc or installation disc), i had to download legally an copy of the windows 7 home premium (64-bit) installation disc and burn it to an blank disc, it took me about 7 hours to download the installation software and burn it to an disc, so i inserted the disc
in the disc driver and still it shows the same message, so i go to BIOS again and put that the primary boot was the CD/DVD, i reboot my notebook and still the same thing. So i opened the HP Advanced System Diagnostic and started an Start-Up Test, and this
is the test results:
Memory Test: PASSED
SMART Check: PASSED
Short DST: FAILED
FAILURED ID: RG8KGX-5B86SB-XD002K-60TW03
PRODUCT ID: XH066UA#ABA
Hard Disk 1
Start-Up Test: FAILED
I really don't want to lose my documents, pictures, files, programs and other content, i don't even know what to do at this moment, i really tried so hard to fix this notebook and ended wasting money to get an PCB and a Blank Disc which didn't solve the
problem, and wasting time, all i have left is my school notebook which is only for my educational and working use, what can i do to fix this notebook, cause i don't want to buy an new notebook or PC and also i don't want to lose my documents, files and more.
Can someone help me in this problem?
Thanks for reading!