Actually we do, but it still won't work. We're not sure what the heck is going on. But figure it has to do with thrying to operate the laptop with a single hard drive rather than two. Rich found a new replacement drive for $90. We'll give that a try and see. The other bit of "huh?" is that the screen is freaking out a bit too. Not sure what would be causing that except for a failing video card. :( Any ideas? There are dashed lines running vertically on the screen (think Matrix) spaced about inch between sets of vertical lines.
So you already tried to do a Windows repair install?
As far as the screen, if the dashed lines appear from the get-go--like, even on the BIOS check screen--it's almost certainly hardware related. The culprit could be anything--bad video card, bad motherboard, bad RAM, bad power supply. Unless you happen to have a very similar, known-working machine sitting around that you can play "musical parts" with, you won't be able to tell which it is. You could try buying a replacement video card and seeing if that fixes things, but it's a gamble. I've been down that road with desktop machines before, and it's not a good road to travel. I think I ended up replacing just about everything before figuring out it was a bad motherboard that was causing the problem.
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As far as the screen, if the dashed lines appear from the get-go--like, even on the BIOS check screen--it's almost certainly hardware related. The culprit could be anything--bad video card, bad motherboard, bad RAM, bad power supply. Unless you happen to have a very similar, known-working machine sitting around that you can play "musical parts" with, you won't be able to tell which it is. You could try buying a replacement video card and seeing if that fixes things, but it's a gamble. I've been down that road with desktop machines before, and it's not a good road to travel. I think I ended up replacing just about everything before figuring out it was a bad motherboard that was causing the problem.
Anyway, sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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