Trying to fix daughter's laptop, which is obviously old--HP G60-23OUS notebook pc. Running Vista OS.
Read all above and have done the following in this order:
1-initially screen said insert boot disk; ofcourse, she never made one and I do not have Vista stuff, thought I'd give diagnostics a try
2-start up test-passed; memory test-passed; hard disk test-hard drive does not exist
3-screen went blank, message dissappeared, but still lit up (not black like turned off, just empty)
4-reseated battery-no change
5-tried restarting and F2, restarting and F8-no change
6-made a boot disk, tried to use but still nothing on screen, can hear CD drive reading tho
7-repeated F2/F8 attempts with boot disk in-obviously no change
8-reseated HDD-no change
I'm desperate at this point, any other suggestions?