Why was the battery out? Is there more story about this?
Anyhow, use the warranty would be best. If it was mine, I would have had the battery in since at the office we have laptops plugged in for 5 years and they come out with little battery wear. There's no reason to go without. Fix? Just wipe the drive and load the OS.
Hello guys!
I've got quite a serious problem with my netbook. Probably after one of WIN10 updates Internet stopped working - it didn't find any wi-fi. I tried to install drivers (didn't help), use Windows system restoring (didn't help) and finally I used HP's tool which I launched here:
https://support.hp.com/doc-images/546/c04761941.jpg
(I chose "Recovery Manager", as far as I remember).The tool asked, if I want to do backup. I disagreed, because I didn't have any CD or pendrive. After quite a long time I saw a window, which said, that recovering had failed and now I can go back or try again. And here's the most important point: I restarted netbook few times, sometimes with battery, sometimes with no batery (only charger). Finally I got bored (don't remind me that I'm stupid, already know it
) and when my netbook was running only on charger (battery was removed), I disconnected the wire. After that it's brick, dead and so on. I can't even see a boot menu. Just nothing happens when I press on/off button. It doesn't work - neither with battery nor charger.
Does anybody know what shall I do? Actually my notebook still has got a warranty, but I just wonder, how big (and possibly expensive in repair) the problem is.
Cheers!

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