Hi,
I am new to this but my laptop has (or so i think) crashed on me so plz help as I don't know what to do.

It's a TOSHIBA laptop with windows XP. I have left in on for 2 days without turning ot off as i was donwloading some stuff. Yesterday it just turned itself off, I have tried to turn it back on and at first the windows start up screen came up but the screen froze and i had to turn it off manually but now when i press the power BUTTON the only thing that comes up is the LITTLE "on" light and that's it. No noise, no error messages. Have had to turn it off manually a number of times now. Could it be that the hard DISK has crashed. I don't know.
Help plz!!!!!!!!!!Perhaps you downloaded malicious material. I've had my Toshiba Satellite powered on for about a month now, I doubt that's what caused your problem. Does the harddrive light flash at all?On no!!I am not sure if the hard drive was flashing, just remember the on button and no noise nothing. Not home at the mo so can't check. Does this meabn that my laptop is dead The little button that controls your monitor could've just been stuck or something. However you would still heard the logon tune if that's the case. Try jiggling the little monitor button and turning it back on, then listen for the logon tune, if it occurs then it sounds like your monitor is messed up. If you don't hear it after about five minutes, I guess your computer is broken. Remember to turn your volume up as well.Ok thanx so much for info. Will try it when i get back home. Just worried that it may be the hard drive, really don't want to loose all the stuff that i had on it.Could it have gone into hibernate? What is the key sequence to get out of hibernate on that machine? What model and how old is it?Don't think that it would hibernate as I was using it at the time that it died on me + it was switched into power. Also i am not sure if i mentioned before but when i turned it on straight after it showed the windows start up screen but froze so i had to turn it off and after that nada.... It's a TOSHIBA Satellite Pro M40 9002 I think and only 2 years old :-/ ThanxNo i haven't, it was just plugged into the mains + used to work well with the battery too. Someone suggested that it could be the hard drive thats gone, would that mean that i loose evrything on it??Ok thanx for info, not sure if I will be able to do it, i am terrible with computers but will give it a go. Anyway i will take it to a shop today and see if they can tell me what's wrong, hopefully it is nothing big and i don't have to replace too much. Thanx againOk took it to the the shop yesterday, the guy was quite useless really but he suggested that there might be a problem with the mother board (kind of think that i know what it is) but he said to contact toshiba directly. That's what i will be doing today, hope that if it is the worst case scenario at least i can get my hard drive info.
Thanx for replying to my posts all the BEST, will tell u the outcome.I have an update. After taking my computer to the shop, they told me that it is the mother board and it's replacement will cost pretty much th same as a new laptop. V sad but guesss there is nothing much to do just to get the stuff from my hard drive.
Thanx for all the advice