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The laptop refuses to boot. the power light keeps blinking but the screen is blank...given for servicing, advised to replace motherboard. kindly advise...also any info regarding the price of the laptop will be appreciated
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Replace the fan or your computer will run hot and keep turning off.
Or are you saying this is what happens when you power on the computer? if so: When you press the power button do you hear fansrunning, hard drive spinning, lights on the computer, hear any beeps or lightsconstantly blinking, hear the DvD/CD drive click and the light on the drawer ofthe DvD/CD turn on for a second or two? If so the laptop is trying toboot or may have booted, but the screen is not showing for some reason.
Beep tones and blinking lights tells the technicians what is going on with thelaptop and why it is not booting. Most times it's a motherboard issuewhen you hear beeps or blinking lights continuous.
Just out of curiosity, you haven't got a usb device plugged in as you are booting the laptop have you? If not, try this:
Remove battery, unplug power, hold power button for 60 seconds, turn on
computer with power plug only, then shutdown, add battery and restart
If that fails to work, check that the charger indicator light is not flickering, this indicates that the power is not completing the circuit (damaged power capacitors/ fault on motherboard.
Are you using a genuine Toshiba charger, these laptops are prone to breaking down if an aftermarket one is used, a non-genuine one can damage the motherboard as well.
How many blinks does the caps lock make? Flashing caps lock is usually a sign that the Ram may be failing. You can try replacing the Ram modules to see if it boots, also, a dying hard drive will prevent booting, remove and see if that allows the laptop to power up
After that, I'd suspect the motherboard is damaged and will need replacing
Have you tried it with an external monitor? If this does not help. then you may have a motherboard problem. The Dell motherboard is easily replaced and you can get one on e-Bay
It sounds like your hard drive has gone bad. As this is a laptop you can try to reseat the hard drive, if that does not help then it might be a case of hard drive crash.
on some pc's a blinking power light denotes the batteryy is in the process of charging.The blank screen means your operating system is not loading properly try F2 to go into bios and set boot options use the "tab"key to navigate.then "enter"to select and change boot sequence play around with the settings untill you are familiar with these pages--this is of course if you havent totally corrupted you os in which case your best bet is to reinstall os from disc--good luck!
In 19 years of working on computers I've seen 1 bad Intel CPU and it still worked it just showed the wrong processor speed. I'd eliminate the CPU being the problem. Generally if you have a bare system with motherboard, ram, keyboard and video and they turn on the system is good. The video may cause a crash if it's bad somewhere in the bootup process going into windows but it shouldn't stop the initial bootup process. The area I would likely suspect is the hard drive. If the arm inside the drive that controls the heads is loose it can cause the drive to read sometimes when cool and then to start slipping and not read when the system is warmer. If you can get into the bios there should be someplace there to check your temperatures and voltages. Those might be a suspect area. If the power supply isn't delivering the proper voltages or the CPU is getting hot could cause problems also. I'd like to hear more about what you're seeing on the screen when this system fails to boot. Does is show the ram countup, system devices and hard drives as detected in the bootup process? Or is the screen just blank. When it doesn't boot does the hard drive light blink continuously?
This mostly happens when your motherboard is bad or one of the memory modules is bad.
The led light comming on indicates your power pack is ok but a component is failing to start especially when the laptop stops at the first screen stage where the manufacturer names appears.
The steps needed to solve this kind of problem would require technical skills and physical inspection.
If you still have a waranty period then seek a free service repair from an authorized or certified gateway service centre at the nearest centre closest to you.
If your warranty has expired, i still advise taking your Laptop to the closest Gateway service centre.
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