Hello folks.
I'm the usually proud owner of a very decent HP Probook. Model? No idea. Got it hardly used, second hand and squeaky clean last year.
It was getting a bit on the slow side so I decided to run Avasttidy up Cleanup on it yesterday. Initially it seemed very happy with what I had done to it, however, upon turning the machine off later in the day by closing it and carting it somewhere else to turn it back on again, it was not happy to comply. Not only is it doing the fun combination of lighting up all LEDs and whirring like a maniac but giving me a totally black screen, it also refuses to shut down when I hold down the power button, so I just had to let it sit there screaming until it ran down overnight.
Now, I don't know which game to play first. Should I first take the battery out and try it on mains power? If no success here do I try moving the ram about? If it smells (not literally although I think I read somewhere that it can) like a motherboard issue, should a total rooky attempt to rectify this with a replacement motherboard? Are there any other suggestions?
As I said, total rooky but I've learnt the art of being self sufficient and picking up new skills, and if that means asking someone else and potentially not succeeding the first time around I am happy to persevere if it results in not haemorrhaging a bunch of money and learning new stuff as a bonus. Any good advices are well received, any further questions relating to the subject which may cast light upon this issue I shall attempt to answer, and just lastly, has anyone ever had a machine totally freak out on them after running an automated clean up on it?? Thanks for your attentions. Happy tekkin'.
Cheers, Jo.
p.s. feel free to use jargon at me. Though I would love as much info as you may be able to give I am happy to look stuff up if it means nothing to me at a glance. Knowledge is power and all that
I'm the usually proud owner of a very decent HP Probook. Model? No idea. Got it hardly used, second hand and squeaky clean last year.
It was getting a bit on the slow side so I decided to run Avast
Now, I don't know which game to play first. Should I first take the battery out and try it on mains power? If no success here do I try moving the ram about? If it smells (not literally although I think I read somewhere that it can) like a motherboard issue, should a total rooky attempt to rectify this with a replacement motherboard? Are there any other suggestions?
As I said, total rooky but I've learnt the art of being self sufficient and picking up new skills, and if that means asking someone else and potentially not succeeding the first time around I am happy to persevere if it results in not haemorrhaging a bunch of money and learning new stuff as a bonus. Any good advices are well received, any further questions relating to the subject which may cast light upon this issue I shall attempt to answer, and just lastly, has anyone ever had a machine totally freak out on them after running an automated clean up on it?? Thanks for your attentions. Happy tekkin'.
Cheers, Jo.
p.s. feel free to use jargon at me. Though I would love as much info as you may be able to give I am happy to look stuff up if it means nothing to me at a glance. Knowledge is power and all that