Hi, I was preparing to sell my W500 and was prepping it by using the recovery disks to restore everything to default. I bought this as my external DVD drive: http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Writer-External-Optical-Drive/dp/B003M0NT1M/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1367015636&sr=8-3&keywords=external+dvd+drive
I plugged it in, hit power, volume + and Windows key. It started reading the drive, then beeped a few times, I couldn't read the error (wasn't paying attention to be honest). Screen went black. Nothing was responding, so I turned it off. When I turn it on, the screen stays black. None of the shortcut keys work. Not sure what happened.
Info: I did change boot to USB CD. I tried using my windows 7 32 bit cd (desktop) as well as the recovery disk, but none is working.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you