Thank you for this tip. I tried to touch the southbridge chip which was hot but still I couldn't boot up with a known good harddrive. I never thought to think the motherboard was bad. I will replace it. Thank you all for your help.

I ran another test which it said there were no bad sectors and the test said it failed.

It's a 14'' and installed face down. I thought maybe the drive was bad so I ran a diagnostic on it which it passed and I connected it to another computer via usb which the harddrive was seen. Is it possible the drive is still defective.

I have a Thinkpad T43 which I'm trying to install Windows 7 Pro. The harddrive I have is a Toshiba MK 4026GAX which is ide. I keep getting the error "no drives were found click load driver to provide a mass storage Install a driver." So, I did a test on the drive and it passed. IS it possible the dr...

I received a T43p laptop from a friend which turns on with a red screen and then the screen goes black. My first initial thought was the screen is bad so I plugged it up to an external monitor. In which, case the screen for the laptop never came on the external monitor but an error message about vol...