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Not quite booting
Hi
I moved my (switched on) laptop to another room today. When I arrived at the other end, the screen was blank (no problem so far, sometimse I squeeze the power button by mistake and put it into 'hibernate'.)
Tried to turn it back on but the power button had disappeared! The casing around it has been cracking away for ages, so I guess the button just fell out. I cant find it.
The machine has a 'emergency boot' button I can use in-lieu of a regular start button. When I press it, the screen flashes up the manufacturer's logo splashscreen, the keyboard backlight comes on for a second, then everything goes off again.
Sometimes it stays on an extra second and I can see the emergency boot menu (Start as normal, Bios settings, Boot menu, System recovery). I can use the up/down arrows to navigate that menu, but everything shuts down before any of them can be enacted.
Very occasionally, it shows "repairing disc" (or something similar) before shuting off almost immediately.
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Sounds consistent with a disc failure? Anything else I should check? I wonder if the charger is dead and the battery is flat (as the machine sarts to boot for a second, then stops). The light next to the (ex) "on" button flashes white-off-red when charger is plugged in. Light does nothing when not plugged in.
Would you expect that the initial boot starts from (say) a ROM chip and that is workign OK; until it hands over to the hard drive, so the boot fails?
I stuck in a Linux boot USB and a proprietary emergency boot disk I made years ago, but as previous, the machine powers down before it boots properly.
I also tried to boot it 'normally' by poking things down the hole where the 'on' switch used to be. Nothing.
Where to start?
Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop. Solid state drive 256MB. Win 10 home