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Old Laptop Booting Issue

PiberiusWilde
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I'm currently fixing an old laptop, again. It's a HP Mini 311. Now, I managed to ironed out most of it's problem. But there is one more issue that I can't figured out the fix for it.

 

When booting if there's anything plugged in on it's usb ports it will stuck boot looping. But if I took of anything that was plugged in the usb ports it will boot properly. It even works if I unplugged it when it's boot looping.

I tried changing things on the bios, still the same. Huh... what a strange anomaly.

 

(also if you wander there's so much mess, I'm dong this on the storage room 'cus I don't have space left to do this on my room LOL)

 

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That seems like it could be a power issue to me - notice how it restarts after the mouse tries to light up? 

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36 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

That seems like it could be a power issue to me - notice how it restarts after the mouse tries to light up? 

Hmm... makes sense. Also on some of the edge of the laptop there was an exposed metal strip, if I accidentally touched those I will get shocked.

 

Also this usb thing happened on everything I plugged. even a wireless keyboard dongle.

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Just now, PiberiusWilde said:

Hmm... makes sense. Also on some of the edge of the laptop there was an exposed metal strip, if I accidentally touched those I will get shocked.

 

Also this usb thing happened on everything I plugged. even a wireless keyboard dongle.

I don't know then, that's kind of odd. A small dongle like that wouldn't be able to pull anywhere near the amount of current needed to cause issues. I'm not really sure what to say then.

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8 hours ago, PiberiusWilde said:

Hmm... makes sense. Also on some of the edge of the laptop there was an exposed metal strip, if I accidentally touched those I will get shocked.

 

Also this usb thing happened on everything I plugged. even a wireless keyboard dongle.

Did you open the laptop? 

This is making me think that there maybe some sort of a short from the power or the battery to the metal parts of the case.

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