1. remove main battery and test with just ac charger.
2. test ac charger with multimeter or test notebook with good charger.
3. remove any memory, then test each stick once at a time in each slot.
4. if only 1 stick, get and test with a known good stick, in each slot.
5. plug into external monitor and then power on to test if its a screen issue.
6. clear bios - usually by removing main AND BIOS battery, wait 5 mins.
7. remove all hardware - hdd, odd, wlan, modem, etc and test.
8. remove mainboard, reseat cpu, benchtest
9. test power is getting past DC port - ie, DC port is not broken...
if fails on bench after clearing bios, reseating cpu, with different sticks of memory tested in each slot, with a known good AC charger, and dc port is undamaged, the board is faulty.
hope this helps.
SOURCE: Gateway 1450 Solo - power light on amber , won't boot
hi Does the laptop come on at all or just the light comes on
SOURCE: Gateway solo 1450 won't power up
Fix for Gateway Solo 1450
If you are comfortable soldering and opening the laptop, then this is your day.
I was fixing a Gateway Solo 1450 that shown only red light indicator. Push the power on botton and didn't respond. Did all sorts suggested reseating no availed. Here the solution I made:
1. Go to Gateway website and look for taking out the keyboard. That's the only support I got as far as user/service manual I need.
2. Take the 5 silver philip screws and 4 black screws from the CPU heat sink. Take out the CD-ROM with one screw.
3. Take out the palm besel cover. Note, the screws while taking them out by drawing on the paper their location.
4. Take out the metal that covering the 5 bottons. Again draw the location of screws.
5. Take out the remaining screws from the motherboard.
The main event.
1. Check the 3 soldered legs of the DC jack. If they are loose then Resolder them. If not still resolder them anyway.
2. I found out the Power botton was intermittent. So with a fine soldering tip (30 watts from Radioshack) and Soldering braid. Clear the soldering tip (pile it until no solder on it). With a steady hand use the braid each leg of the Power botton, then pull it with tweezer. Note the orientation is very important. Mark the front face of the power button. The good news you have 4 available switches to use. Next do the same to the last switch botton (a person icon from the dash board). I chose the last right botton. I switched their place.
3. Assemble the unit backward as you first disassembled it.
4. Check the memory. Use eraser from the pencil and rub the memory fine pins back and forth until they look shiny. Insert/reseat it/them.
Hope this helps you. Good Luck.
Roan
Chapel Hill, NC
SOURCE: how do I replace the hard drive on a gateway solo
Hard drive replacement instructions (from the Gateway site) for your notebook are here.
http://support.gateway.com/s/Manuals/Mobile/8508627/8508627o.htm#1024735
The entire User Guide is here:
http://support.gateway.com/s/Manuals/Mobile/8508627/index.htm
Good Luck
SOURCE: I need a video adapter driver and audio driver for
Hi, get all your required drivers from the manufacturer's website itself. Download drivers from link http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn¶m=350126
Cheers!
SOURCE: video adapter driver for windows 7 for gateway
Your laptop has not support for Windows Vista or Windows 7. Other components of the system could not be recognized due to lack of drivers. Unfortunately you have to stick with Windows XP as it was originally thought.
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