The other day, my laptop PC went to sleep on me.  Since this happens quite often, I did not think much of it.  But, when I went to wake it up, it didn’t respond.  So, I tried again.  Still no response.  That is when I realized that it was gone.  It passed away quietly in its sleep.

Oh, I tried rebooting it.  I tried several times.  But, no response.  I tried to put in the “safe mode” but it wouldn’t load.  Then I tried to run the repair program but it just locked up on me.  Finally, I loaded the diagnostics disk and began running that.

The diagnostics disk told me that the memory was fine as was the CPU and the various I/Os.  But, when it got to the disk drive, everything failed.  After analyzing the results, I concluded that the disk controller had died.  And, since this is a laptop, everything is built into the mother board so it is doubtful if it can be repaired.