Message on laptap scrren is barely visible Display on scrfeen File: \Boot\BCD Status: 0xc0000ep Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurred This problem started after I rebooted when my laptop hung up trying to install Firefox version 12 update. Before this I had receievd suspecious "Amazon.com" cancellation emails for products I did not buy.
G60-235dx. (2011 model, is my guess)
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PC boots sequentially.
progress in that matters. so it seem windows unstated runs?
XP?
so you power on and what happens ?,
errors before windows logs in or after.?
my guess #1 is the main laptop battery is bad, remove it.
this pC runs on AC power pack endlessly, (AC power good)
dim screens. can be bad CCFL lamps or low power in the PC.
so again take out the battery
what flash drive, remove that, test the pC with no usb devices at all plugged in.
just an A.C power pack and no main big battery.
this PC has old CCFL lamp tubes that all go dim, fast.
turn yellow then dim the flicker and then DIE for ever.
all do. some in 2 years time never turned off. they do.
it the screen goes black use a flashlight if data is good on the screen the back lamp is croaking. (***** of CCFL tubes)
there are many cause of black screens, I can list 30. (will not)
but dim screens are only
1; main battery bad and shorted.
2: AC power pack near dead. (weak happens)
3: shorts in the main board, modules.overloading power buses.
4: CCFL dim as every one this old does, all do.
see flash light test.
http://www.pcdied.com/monitors.html#flashlighttest
SOURCE: got error message no bootable cd in atapi cd-rom
check your bios to make sure that it is set to boot from your HDD. If this setting is correct, perhaps your HDD is failed
Testimonial: "thanks I think it is a HDD problem"
SOURCE: Windows boot manager page with status 0xc00000e9
If you don'yt have a Vista DVD,you can borrow any for startup vista repair. This is very common and HP/Compaq don't usually give operating systen vista dvd
SOURCE: When I powered down and rebooted I got Windows
> by faulty hardware such as a hard drive
So, the disk ("hard", not "floppy") drive in your computer is very soon to be "dead".
SOURCE: I have a HP Pavillion
The easiest thing to check is to unplug any USB drive type devices (say
the MP3 player) before starting Windows and see if that helps. If not
then it sounds like something on the harddrive was messed up.
You could try holding F8 at boot to get the boot menu. Select Safe Mode
and see if that will boot. If it does, answer yes to the popup question
and then do Start'Run and type in:
cmd
to get a command prompt. In the command prompt type:
chkdsk c: /f
It should say that it can't check the drive right now (since Windows is
running off that drive) and ask if you want to check it at boot. Answer
with a y. Then reboot, let it try to startup normally, and chkdsk should
run and check the drive for errors.
If that doesn't work (can't boot safe mode) and If you've got a Windows
CD, (XP SP2 version disc may be needed if you have really large
harddrives, doesn't have to be the disc used to install Windows on that
computer) you could try booting it and go into the Recovery Console.
(Basically a dos prompt type thing.)
Then type:
chkdsk c: /p
It should check the harddrive for errors and if it finds some will try
and fix them. If when it's done it says it found and fixed one or more
errors, then I'd do it again and see if it says it found one or more
errors. (If it doesn't say that it found errors the second time then,
hopefully, that means it fixed the errors it previously found. If it
keeps finding errors every time you run it then that may indicate that
the drive is failing.) In any case, running chkdsk once as above may
help you get into Windows. (I'd still have it do chkdsk c: /f on reboot
as above after booting Windows, just to be on the safe side.) You will
need to have set a password for the Administrator account to do the
Recovery Console though. (Administrator account is accessible when
booting in Safe Mode.)
If you can get Windows booting (by any method) one thing you can do that
might help prevent this from happening in the future is to disable disc
caching for the MP3 player.
Plug the device in, right click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon and choose "Safely Remove Hardware."
Check the Display Device Components box if it's not checked.
Find the MP3 player in the list (likely under USB Mass Storage Devices) and click it.
Then click the Properties button. On the properties window click
Policies and set it to "Optimize for Quick Removal" and click OK.
From now on (at least on that computer) you should be able to remove the
MP3 player without using the Safely Remove Hardware tray icon, as long
the computer's not actually accessing files on the drive.
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