- Oct 18, 2004
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I have a cx2610 gateway laptop. It flooded waste deep here in chicago a couple of weeks ago and well when moving stuff upstairs the laptop took a quick dip. it didn't fully go in or anything. quickly took it up and let it dry. We waited a week till startup.
I thought it was dead. But to my surprise it started up. first time it started up everything went fine. 10 mins into it it froze. I rebooted and then it stated no hard-drive installed. So i go try to install XP with a disc.
It states the ram is working after being scanned but it wont boot from hard-drive. So now i'm thinking i should just replace the hard-drive but i have this fear that maybe the motherboard or something else is bad. I dont want to buy a hard-drive and only to have something else not work.
What do you guys think of my situation?
i need a "80 GB HDD (5400 RPM) SATA" so i'm assuming that will run me about 50-100$
what are the chances of more things messing up, the laptop on its own wont get pass the gateway screen, when XP install disc installed it runs it into the blue screen and searches everything the right way and then stops saying NO HD found. but it does a RAM test. so it seems as most of the things are working
I thought it was dead. But to my surprise it started up. first time it started up everything went fine. 10 mins into it it froze. I rebooted and then it stated no hard-drive installed. So i go try to install XP with a disc.
It states the ram is working after being scanned but it wont boot from hard-drive. So now i'm thinking i should just replace the hard-drive but i have this fear that maybe the motherboard or something else is bad. I dont want to buy a hard-drive and only to have something else not work.
What do you guys think of my situation?
i need a "80 GB HDD (5400 RPM) SATA" so i'm assuming that will run me about 50-100$
what are the chances of more things messing up, the laptop on its own wont get pass the gateway screen, when XP install disc installed it runs it into the blue screen and searches everything the right way and then stops saying NO HD found. but it does a RAM test. so it seems as most of the things are working