I'm so damn happy that it wasn't an issue with the motherboard though, as I'm not keen on paying $150+ to get it fixed by the repair guy. I can gladly say that the HDD step worked! I've checked to see whether anything on the HDD is corrupted or missing and everything seems to be in place so far. I would, however, recommend doing that, purely because there's probably a file somewhere in some folder that's been corrupted somehow and I'll come across it one day. Asked if I wanted to do a disk check but I skipped that step because I was too excited and impatient. Inserted the old battery and restarted with all components in place.
It froze while trying to load the system files so I played the risk card and forced shut down via the power button. Inserted the HDD and started it up in safe mode. The screen came on and asked me to insert the boot disk/HDD Turned on the laptop with just the AC adapter supplying power to it (no battery). However, when those didn't solve the problem either, I tried a step that was suggested in another forum: I also checked the VGA cable to see if that was properly connected, which it was. Turns out I hadn't inserted the top two boards properly. Thank you for your advice! I tried your first step but the external screen wasn't picking up a signal so I checked the RAM. Is there anything I can do short of taking it to a repairman? What would something just suddenly stop working?Ĭould it have something to do with the RAM boards being in the wrong spots?Ĭould it be because I downgraded the battery from 10.8v 5200mAh/52mAh to 10.8v 4400mAh/48Wh? The screen just looks like the laptop was never on in the first place - no backlight or anything. All the lights come on, fan works fine, CD drive makes the usual start-up noise. Put everything back in the right order, aside from the RAM as I couldn't remember which was originally in what slot (I have 4 bits of 4GB RAM).įinally chucked in the new battery and adapter but now the screen won't come on. Ran compressed air through the fan while holding the blades still so the fan won't become unbalanced. I opened up my laptop this morning, replaced the DC board and removed the whole motherboard (with the fan still attached) to clean out all the dust. The screen has always worked fine with no issues prior to the day the DC port gave out and the old battery drained. DC port carked it a few months back and I've sort of left it for a while as I needed a new battery and AC adapter as well (originally thought the adapter was the issue so I spliced it).
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