Laptop for the bin?

[jimmybhoy]

My samsung R530 running windows 7 o/s has had a low battery issue of late. I was on it the other night emailing an estimate for work, when i pulled the power lead out. The machine shut down as if there was no power. I tried to reboot. After 2 days i can get it on, everything looks ok but with very small icons. The search bar is also black instead of white. I cannot click on anything as its unresponsive. Anyone have any suggestions, im on the wifes for the Mo, no doubt she will start the yadda yadda just shortly wanting it back. Not having my own laptoppamabob ,will cause me medical problems........ sore ears!

[snapper]

Knacked battery, it was running on the main lead only. May even be a flat cmos battery as well.
Try starting it in 'safe mode' (sounds like it may already be in that though) if you can try doing a reset with the system restore, if that fails and you have the wherwithall then take HDD out and piggy it onto another machine as a slave drive and get your data off it. Then stick it back in, put the recovery disk in and re-boot with that. It will overwrite everything but with luck sort it.

[AskDean]

press f8 on boot go into safe mode and click repair

[worldclassmusician]

If it's booting up and running but you have problems like it's slow, the task bar is the wrong colour, stuff like that, but it's working nonetheless then it sounds like your hardware is ok, and that it's a software problem.

I've not run a PC for a while, so have no idea about Windows 7, but if you have a boot disc/dvd, reinstall windows. It does sound like you need a new battery though. Try the reinstall before splashing out on a battery.