Lighthing hit me!

[coolcurrent]

I was using a laptop on a raining day, and it got fired!
Lightning struck, i got a shock, but temporarily without any fatel incidence.

Compaq presario CQ61 aka insyde

but my laptop was affected, it was plugged in when i was using it.
when i tried to boot some days later, i got an error message

Serial Number: (empty- nothing is shown)
UUID Number is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Product Configuration ID: 00000000000000000
Factory installed OS: non-vista

presently, the laptop boots up,but stops at the win7 logo with the progressbar. I tried to format, still stops there, i thought of doing a bios update, but need your imputes

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

That's not much to go on.

I'm surprised that it's still working.

Try a linux distro see if you can boot into ubuntu or linux mint live cd, if you can then try to to install it, if it fails then something is screwy. Also run memtest86+ usually comes on linux live cds as well.

Another thing you can do is try d-ban and wipe the drive good, then attempt to reinstall windows. Sometime bad MBR, boot sectors, broken partitions and magnetic errors causes the drive to get screwed up so bad that nothing can install or tries to install but fails because of it.

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

i saw a sony vayo 6 years ago and the notebook was doing the same stuck on logo.
hdd change rams optic, i could not take the bios out at that time to update but if you can it will be a progress to my old mistery sony vaio to see if you can get it unstuck fromt here

[theokretes]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

It's very difficult to repair laptop motherboards, especially if they use BGA chips that need replacing.

BGA... is my least favourite. Partially due to the fact I don't own a BGA reworking station.

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

if you really wanna take out a chip and replace or reball you can make you`re own setup.
it depends on how much you wanna do that thing.
home made rework station its now a new thing

[theokretes]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

if you really wanna take out a chip and replace or reball you can make you`re own setup.
it depends on how much you wanna do that thing.
home made rework station its now a new thing

I actually may be interested in that. I have a 3dfx voodoo 4500 which I want to replace the VSA chip with another one as I accidentally broke it while removing the heatsink.

But that's off topic.

[Junk Parts]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

I feel your pain. "Thor" has taken at least three desktops at my house. This means he has two of my Dells and a nice home built unit. I wish you luck!

[c_hegge]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

I have a Gigabyte G41 motherboard that was hit by lightning last year. When I got my hands on it, it wouldn't POST. I fixed it by removing the Ethernet controller IC (which was visibly blown out) with my hot air gun. Around here, lightning hits though the power are extremely rare. They almost always come through the phone line, and take out the ADSL modem and Ethernet controller IC

[ddscentral]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

I remember trying to fix a Dell PC which was hit by lightning.
It would still turn on and display something like "keyboard error press any key".
Both USB and PS/2 ports were totally dead.

[goontron]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

with the underground cable and electrical system here that not very common. but the construction crew here are idiots and end up digging into the power lines and cable lines so outages are common.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Lighthing hit me!

I tried to format, still stops there

You need to wipe the HDD then put in the Windows 7 DVD.

Laptop HDDs seem to get bitrot often!