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Troubleshooting a laptop..help!!
I am currently trying to troubleshoot a laptop that has some issues!?!
Some background: In August 2004 the laptop I was using (a good spec 2.2Ghz- though a desktop processor) was running quite hot (this may be coincident) just quit in a flash - as if someone had pulled the power. I restarted, which it did..and then some minutes later it quit again. Then on pressing the power button the HDD light would illuminate and you can hear the disk spinnning up, also the fans on the bottom of the laptop would turn briefly then stop. There was no 'beep' and the screen remained black. I took it to a pretty useless computer technician who tested the HDD (it is ok..I've used it in another machine) and reported that the processor must be bad. I put the laptop on the shelf.. Ok...fast forward to yesterday..I finally get around to looking at it. I figure I can pull the processor and test it in my desktop machine..I do this and it works fine! So I put it back into the laptop and whoa the thing starts up no problem! I proceeded to setup a network with the destop machine and the thing is definitely running ok. Then after say 5-6 restarts of the machine (each time no problems) I leave it on and the screen goes into powersave mode..and seems to lockout - no amount of button pressing or mouse moving changes anything. In the end I let the battery go flat and the laptop goes off -still with screen remaining black.. When I try to restart I have the same symptoms I had in August... This has got me a bit baffled...I know a little about computers though not too much about the CMOS and BIOS setup..I was thinking the CMOS battery may have died (another small amount of info - when the laptop ran again yesterday for the first time windows advised me the date and time was incorrect) Would this give these symptoms? Or has anybody any other ideas? Problem with BIOS? I get no POST screen at all... I will really welcome any suggestions!! (both for what is the problem..and the solution) Thanks Grant And yes of course August was just outside the warranty... |
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