Hi,
I have been given a laptop to fix by a friend, she said that she opened an email with a virus and now the laptop won't boot. After the post screen it just sits on a black screen with a blinking cursor.
I have ran memtest86 from a centOS CD I had lying around, after about an hour there were 650 or so errors. I've never used memtest86 so I have no idea if this would be the root of the problem or not. I've only ever had a bad stick of RAM once and the machine still booted but blue screened at random intervals.
Just looking for a bit of advise really, I don't really want to order some RAM if it's not going to fix the problem.
I have been given a laptop to fix by a friend, she said that she opened an email with a virus and now the laptop won't boot. After the post screen it just sits on a black screen with a blinking cursor.
I have ran memtest86 from a centOS CD I had lying around, after about an hour there were 650 or so errors. I've never used memtest86 so I have no idea if this would be the root of the problem or not. I've only ever had a bad stick of RAM once and the machine still booted but blue screened at random intervals.
Just looking for a bit of advise really, I don't really want to order some RAM if it's not going to fix the problem.