laptop will not boot.

[big scott]

Hello,
im lost I have a compaq presario cq62 abd like this laptop but went to wake it up last night and will not come on.
I turned it off, then back on it starts, you can hear the fan on high then goes to slow.
the caps lock button blinks and the wfi btton is red. Nothing comes up on the screen
any clue what went wrong?
Could it be hard drive?
not sure what to do.

also at this point im scrambling and looking for another laptop, but I would like to find a new one with windows 7 is there any out there?
Im not a fan of wndows 8.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Try powering it off, removing the battery, and reseat the RAM modules. If that doesn't do it, it may be dead, as the CQ-62's were pieces of junk like their HP model counterparts, the DV series.

 

[johnb35]

How many times does the caps lock light blink?

 

[big scott]

The light just keeps blinking on and off.
and ill try that.
thanks

 

[johnb35]

It should blink in a series then short pause and blink again. How many times it blinks at once determines whats wrong with it. If 5 times then its a bad motherboard.

 

[big scott]

Ok I pillrd the then installed them. Tured it back on and same thing.

I think its dead.

wht is the cance of me pulling everythibg off my hard drive.
I will have to find somebody to do it as I have no clue how or even if I can.
is I hope I did not lose my hard drive as I have all my info, pics, docs everything.

 

[big scott]

Well it just blinkes off and on slowly like every 2 sec.
I know what you mean i. So if I had to guess it blinks 1 time. Whats that ?

 

[johnb35]

If it only blinks once then it means it has a bad processor.

 

[voyagerfan99]

If it only blinks once then it means it has a bad processor.

More likely motherboard than an actual bad processor.

 

[big scott]

how do I get my info off the hard drive ?
im going to get a usb hard drive and want to load it with the info from bad laptop.
I never done anything like this so not sure if I can do it.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Just remove the hard drive from the laptop and connect it to another computer using this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002&cm_re=vantec-_-12-232-002-_-Product

 

[big scott]

i order this ...
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812123312

is this ok ?

ya should have asked first but they told me that will work.
are they right?
it is a 2.5 sata h/d .

 

[CorruptHawkeyez]

Have you tried pulling the heatsink off the processor, then reseat the processor. Clean the old thermal paste off and reapply new paste and heatsink.

 

[johnb35]

i order this ...
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812123312

is this ok ?

ya should have asked first but they told me that will work.
are they right?
it is a 2.5 sata h/d .

Yeah, that will work.

 

[big scott]

also is the screen worth anything ?
i torn it down and have the screen off and it has the wifi board. is it worth anything ?
if so ill post it for sale as i dont need it now. it works 100% no cracks.

 

[big scott]

o and thanks for all your help. really...

 

[big scott]

Have you tried pulling the heatsink off the processor, then reseat the processor. Clean the old thermal paste off and reapply new paste and heatsink.

i did pull the cooling tub off of it and it looks like the processor is toast. its black like it over heated.

 

[johnb35]

Can you post a picture of it?

 

[big scott]

i hope these work, if not let me know.

 

[johnb35]

Not very good pictures but it may be toast. Can you get a top view?