Hard drive kicks in 2 beeps then cuts out

caperjack

The laptop is off my hands now, I tried booting a memory test cd and it span a bit without anything happening... don't know if that would mean anything?

yeah,if it wouldn't boot to bootable mem test disk it an't a gonna boot to any disk

troubleshooting-hardware

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