My father's having a problem with a laptop he owns, and I'd thought I'd post here to get an opinion on what the problem could be with it.
He really needs this laptop, as he doesn't have the money to replace it atm, it contains extremely important documents such as Resume's, Info for his occupation, or job , a book that he is writing, and tons of other personal info and documents of his.
The laptop is a hewlett Packard (hp) Laptop, he bought it brand new from walmart (the absolutely worst place to buy a computer) about 2-3 years ago.
I don't know the specs, however I know it has an amd64 Processor , a CD-RW/DVD-Rom combo Drive, and thats about all I know.
The problem is, that when you push the power button, it will come on, then shut off, and then come back on again. It does this about 3-4 times before finally staying on, however the problem is, that when it finally stays on, Nothing appears on the screen, and are not able to do anything.
My mother and father were thinking, that it was the hard drive, but I thought otherwise, because even if the hard-drive was shot, the bios would still appear on the screen right? But nothing appears on the screen at all in this case.
My father takes extremely great care of his things, so it wasn't banged against anything, or dropped. He also never drank or ate anything while he was doing work on it
I was hoping that someone could reply, and possibly let me know what could be wrong with it, that may has had a similar problem. If all else fails, he will probably try and have it repaired, at a repair shop, as it has too much important data, to just throw in the trash.
Thanks if anyone can help, or let me know
