pc help please .,.,it went phut

[Dewi_cool]

Does your power supply have a power switch on the back? Check this is in the on position. This should prob have been step 1!

& are you in the right house?

[maldini32]

How do you reset bios?

As he hasn't asked he poss knows? There is a clear CMOS (BIOS) jumper on the motherboard, or a lithium battery you could take out.

Im asking for my lappie, it takes 10 goes to get it up and running. It keeps on asking me at the start if i wanna start windows normally or the last good configuration. Which ever one i enter it just reboots itself once it gets windows loading. Ive been punching it to make it work, it sometimes does and sometimes just takes an absolute age. Im getting a new one very soon, but wondering if there is something else i can do to make it work. Ive reset it to factory settings a few times but no joy.

[RichEO]

By reset to factory settings, do you mean formatted and re-installed windows? That's what I'd suggest.

Laptops are a bit different, they are a pain to open up. Some have a small BIOS reset switch on the outside. But the fact it is already booting up, means a BIOS reset is unlikely to change anything and it also means you can reset the BIOS via the software as it's booting up if you wanted.

Could your laptop be overheating? Sounds like it to me.