I moved my little Gateway LT2016u on the kitchen counter one night and it crashed the system when the battery came undone. I put the battery back on and restarted it, but had to move it once again and the same thing happened. Now it shows that a dll file is corrupted or missing. So I closed it down and took it to my grandson to fix. He plugged in the charger to charge it and during that time it made a weird sound and turned off and hasn't been able to start since. What could have happened? could a bad motherboard be the problem? Bad hard drive? Help??
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Accidentally removing the power like that can damage system files or the hard drive. When you say it won't boot, do you get the boot POST (power-on self test) that lets you press a function key (or escape) to get to the BIOS setup?
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