My buddy asked me to fix his laptop which was having 'windows issues' but I'm stumped, I can't even get it to boot. He tells me 'this was not happening before', but thankfully I had him take it out of his bag and turn it on when he brought it over, so he knows it's nothing I did.
Anyway, during POST, the status bar goes about 2/3rds of the way across and just stops. F2 and F12 do nothing (even immediately after turning on the laptop and just spamming the keys). It never gets past this point. I reseated the DVD drive, memory and hard drive, just in case, but it didn't help.
Anybody seen this before or have any ideas? I could only find one reference to this problem on a different model via google, and reseating the DVD drive solved it for that one individual.