Laptop seems to have died?

[pilotbob]

Hi All,

 

Hope this is in the right place,

 

My laptop, Athlon 64/3200, 80Gb HDD, 1Gb RAM, XP home SP3, will not boot anymore. Over the last few weeks it has been shutting down randomly, I assumed due to overheating. It has always responded to a restart after a few minutes without any further problems. Last night however it shutdown and will not now restart. When I press the "On" button the fans power up for about 7-8 seconds then shut off again. During this time there are no "beeps" or screen flashes at all, and there appears to be no attempt even to run the BIOS. Am I looking at a dead motherboard or maybe just the CPU.???? Any ideas???

 

Bob.

[Tony D]

Disconnect the power cord and remove the battery for 30 minutes. Then connect the power cord and see if it starts.

[pilotbob]

Disconnect the power cord and remove the battery for 30 minutes. Then connect the power cord and see if it starts.

Tried that, no joy I'm afraid

[Guest Wolfeymole]

It sounds like the PSU is dead or nearly dead Bob.

 

Give all vents on the laptop a good blow out with a can of compressed air to make sure there is no crap clogging anything up.

[Seth]

When I press the "On" button the fans power up for about 7-8 seconds then shut off again. During this time there are no "beeps" or screen flashes at all, and there appears to be no attempt even to run the BIOS. Am I looking at a dead motherboard or maybe just the CPU.?

 

Very unlikely to be the cpu.

 

I suggest a dead mobo or the battery shorting out (to which you and Kelly have already addressed)

 

A defective mobo in a laptop is not practical nor economical to replace.

[pilotbob]

OK thanks to all, just what I thought really. New machine ordered:(

[Spartan73]

As a suggestion - to recover some money, and if your capable of doing so. Strip the machine down into as many parts as possible and sell them ( known working ) off on ebay as spares. They will sell eventually I'm sure.

 

I did this for an old Sony laptop with a dead MB, but got a bit back for a good screen, keyboard, power supply etc... Sony parts sell quite hot on eay, as Sony themselves are very difficult about supplying parts ( and or make them very expensive) to justify normally economical repairs.

 

Laptop parts are hard to find generally.

 

Its better than throwing the machine away.

 

Or if you cannot be bothered to strip it, sell the whole thing for spares and repairs ( expect to get less this way round )

 

Just an idea!

 

;)

[Spartan73]

Infact i reckon some older laptops are worth more as spare parts, than they are as fully working units.

 

Anyone wanna go into into business? :D