That's when I remembered that both our laptops had hibernation disabled. Questioning my daughter, I realised that our laptops developed this problem after we had both used them on battery power till the laptops ran out of power. Leaving the laptops alone for 10 minutes or more before trying to power them on seemed to work as well. After that, the problem came back when I restart, or shutdown and try to power on. This only seemed to help it start properly once. I tried removing the battery, power supply, hdd, ram, disconnecting the keyboard/touchpad, display, WiFi, etc on my laptop. If the laptops manage to boot into windows, a restart would probably cause it to fail into the hdd led blinking no start state. At times pressing the power button would bring the PCs to boot up, other times they would fail and all we'd get is a blinking HDD led. When we tried to turn on our laptops, they would intermittently start.
Scroll to the bottom for the TLDR cause and solutions.Īnyway, I just had this problem happen to the 2 laptops that my daughter and I use. This solution worked for me, but of course, your mileage may vary. Hi, I'm writing a long response because I know that getting the right keywords will help others find this answer (I've also posted this answer elsewhere).
