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HP Mini 311: "No Bootable Device" error on start up

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:03:25 -0700

Alright, so long story short I got this laptop out of a junk box of old electronics at work. Perfect condition, but no hardrive or power supply. Easy to find online and order.

I installed the new hardrive and plugged in the power supply. Yay it boots up!

Then I get a black screen with a note at the top "No bootable device"

So I do some Googleing and try all the fixes that are suggested, I remove and replug in the hard drive, I reset the BIOs settings, I make sire the hardrive is at the top of the boot up presses and I ran a hard drive diagnostic in BIOs. Nothing.

I would love to get this little laptop running so I can bring it to DND games (my usual laptop is twice the size of this one and a bit inconvenient, please help!

⟐ Answer edited January 17, 2024 at 20:03 MST

hp mini 311: How easy is it to swap the wifi card?

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:06:28 -0700

hello,

this isnt repair related yet but long and short i am buying a hp mini 311 either entirley stock if the wireless is easily upgraded

if its hard i am going for it configured

RAM and HDD can be upgraded if needed

CPU is fine for a netbook

how hard is it?

⟐ Comment deleted November 16, 2018 at 22:06 MST

HP Mini 311: Covering the WWAN antennas used by the Verizon 3G card?

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:43:30 -0700

I got one of these to toy around with as it was the best of the breed for netbooks due to the 11.6” screen (I also have a compatible screen so…) since it was cheap, However, the screen is cracked but I can fix that - the spare screen will work.

However, mine is the -1037NR, which means it has the HP WWAN card. Cool, right? Well, EXCEPT Verizon blocks new cellular activations on 3G/no VoLTE hardware so the card does me no good. I would like to “delete” it from the computer so I don’t need to worry about it’s existence when I go rebuild the OS. So yeah, this card isn’t going to do me any good and I’d prefer to remove it.

What is the best way to cover the WWAN antennas on the machine, so it doesn’t short anything?

This is how the cards are laid out in the 311:

⟐ Commented November 11, 2021 at 10:43 MST