- Aug 15, 2016
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My sister was flying home for thanksgiving last year and the TSA dropped her laptop while it was in her bag. She gave me the "broken" Samsung laptop (model NP530U3C). I figured the hard drive must be bad, so I removed it and connected it to my other computer and I found out the hard drive had lots of bad sectors.
I replaced the hard drive with a new one, reinstalled Windows 7 via USB boot installation, and after it finished installing, i restarted it.
I thought I fixed everything and was waiting for the windows loading screen to come up.
First the samsung logo, with text at the bottom that reads: F2 to setup F4 to restore.
Then a few seconds later, it shuts down with a sound of the hard drive powering down.
Then it automatically boots back up, shows the samsung logo again, and powers down.
This repeats.
I am able to enter the BIOS and stay there as long as I want to, so the CPU is not overheating.
I was also able to install windows 7 on it and that takes some time, and so the CPU is not overheating.
I tried to load safe mode by pressing F8 a lot, but I am UNABLE to load safe mode, because the laptop shuts down right after the samsung screen.
I also can't get into the recovery by pressing F4. The laptop shuts down before entering recovery mode.
Just to be sure, I opened up the laptop and removed the thermal paste on the CPU, which was dry, and closed it back up. Didn't help. Still shuts down before showing windows loading screen.
What can I do at this point?
I replaced the hard drive with a new one, reinstalled Windows 7 via USB boot installation, and after it finished installing, i restarted it.
I thought I fixed everything and was waiting for the windows loading screen to come up.
First the samsung logo, with text at the bottom that reads: F2 to setup F4 to restore.
Then a few seconds later, it shuts down with a sound of the hard drive powering down.
Then it automatically boots back up, shows the samsung logo again, and powers down.
This repeats.
I am able to enter the BIOS and stay there as long as I want to, so the CPU is not overheating.
I was also able to install windows 7 on it and that takes some time, and so the CPU is not overheating.
I tried to load safe mode by pressing F8 a lot, but I am UNABLE to load safe mode, because the laptop shuts down right after the samsung screen.
I also can't get into the recovery by pressing F4. The laptop shuts down before entering recovery mode.
Just to be sure, I opened up the laptop and removed the thermal paste on the CPU, which was dry, and closed it back up. Didn't help. Still shuts down before showing windows loading screen.
What can I do at this point?
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