Laptop shuts down and restarts right after showing the motherboard logo loading screen.

pkim1230

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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?
 
Hi there pkim1230,

Do you have a flash drive attached or the OS CD in the laptop by any chance?
I believe you can go to BIOS and adjust your boot order. Set your HDD to be the first boot option.

If you boot from OS from a flash drive, you will be able to narrow down the possibilities. That way, you will see if there's something wrong with the OS installation and the SATA port.
Just grab a flash drive or a CD and boot Ubuntu: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD :)
 


No flash drive inserted, no cd drive.
boot order is set to the only boot option available, the HD.
I don't know what you mean by boot from OS in flash drive. Do you mean I should install windows from flash?
I already tried. The windows installation opens up, and starts copying installation files, but it is unable to finish at around 50%, and just restarts.
The HD is new so it's not the HD. I also tried another HD.

Also, I don't see the point of installing ubuntu. I don't need to back up anything.