Questions & Answers for: unseat laptop hard drive

...laptop inspiron 5150 wont come on xp the power comes on with the lights it seems like it starts to boot up but the display wont come on and just the cpu fan runs i tried a new hard drive but didnt ...

after each stick reinsertion. If this doesn't do it then take out the hard drive and dvd drive then turn on ht laptop. If after all of these steps you still don't get video then the motherboard is bad

...hard drive not being read. PXE is the code for the computer trying to boot from a network drive because it cannot find the hard drive. Take the hard drive out and try to re-seat it. When it was ...

...laptop after you unseat and reseat each memory stick. If you still get the beeps, take out the hard drive and dvd drive just to be sure the laptop isn't getting shorted out by those devices. If you ...

...unseat and reseat the memory sticks one stick at a time in each slot one at a time and try turning it on after each memory reseat. If the laptop still doesn't turn on then take out the dvd drive as ...

...hard drive present. I've checked the connectors, I have unseated and reseated the drive but can't get the laptop to recognize the drive. The laptop has the newest version of BIOS (A09) that Dell has ...

...hard drive is located on an edge of the laptop and held in by a single screw- if you see a component sticking out a smidge, fully powerdown the laptop, remove the battery and the ac adapter, then ...

...laptop. Unseat and reseat the hard drive and dvd drive as well, this will make sure there is no bad connections to the motherboard. If these steps don't fix it then that means the motherboard is bad ...

...laptop this morning and now when I turned it on I get a message that says no hard drive detected. The hard drive may have failed.. But it could also have come unseated. If the drive is not secured in ...

...hard drive could have come unseated. You can remove the cover (tiny screws require tiny screwdrivers),then gently pull our the hard drive and re-install it.  The small screwdriver may help you ...