Gateway MS2274 Laptop has a black screen and not booting. The power indicator comes on and all you hear is the fan and soon afterward will shut off; no hard drive LED. Tried removing the battery and plugged directly into ACD adapter and getting the same results. When battery inserted and AC adapter only the charging LED will appear along with power indicator and nothing else. As mentioned, you only hear the fan and after a few seconds will shut completely down.

You operating system is corrupted. Your computer is fine. Open it in "Safe Mode" using a function key, "F" something. (You will have to look it up for e Gateway as they are different for different mfrs.) Select "Safe Mode with Networking." The computer should boot up for you, but the screen will be different. At START type in: "cmd" a new (backdoor) window will pop up. type in "chkdsk/f" exactly where the cursor lands you. Without quotation marks, of course. Let Microsoft repair the program for you as you wait. Be patient, it takes some time. Reboot afterwards and your PC should behave as normal.

Dear Cesar,

In order to help you better, we need more information regarding the problem you have with your laptop. Please, tell us:

1) Brand and model of your laptop.
2) What is its operating system (Windows, Linux, Android, ChromeOS, OS X, etc)
2) When you connect the power adapter to your laptop, does the power indicator LED lights up?
3) If you press its power button and put your ear close to the laptop, can you hear both the fan and the hard disk spinning?
4) The black screen at the start you mention, is it totally black or there is a small white cursor blinking at the top of the screen?

Please, send us your answers as soon as possible so we can look for a solution to your problem.

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Miguel L. Martins

If your laptop appears to boot up and the hard disk LED flashes, then the problem is probably a back light fault. This can be a faulty inverter or a faulty CCFL lamp. Please click on this link and follow my instructions to identify the fault and possible fix :- http://www.fixya.com/support/r3598095-faulty_laptop_lcd_screen

If your laptop appears to boot up and the hard disk LEDflashes, then the problem is probably a back light fault. This can be a faultyinverter or a faulty CCFL lamp. Please click on this link and follow myinstructions to identify the fault and possible fix :- http://www.fixya.com/support/r3598095-faulty_laptop_lcd_screen

If it has no sounds of say music that you would hear of its system launching then its possible its Back up battery has failed an scrambled the Bios, this is a disc like lithium battery in a holder
How to Install CMOS Battery in Gateway Laptop Gateway Netbook disassembly LT2802U

These may help you though I have not seen where its located but that second link might give a clue if you watch it through.

Hope this helps..........

Sounds like the cd/dvd drive needs to be replaced if you are trying to boot from it.

How long have you had it on. If you are not venting the heat out away from the processor, it will shut down to protect it. I suggest either take a small fan and blowing towards the computer. Or they make a chill pads for laptops about thrity dollars.

it may be over heating !!
turn it on and run it till you hear the fan turn on, then check if there is much air coming out of it.
if not use a vacuum to **** air throw it as you blow hard into the slot that the air should come out of

This could have several causes, including malware installed on your system, but is frequently the result of some kind of hardware driver conflict. Have you recently installed any new hardware or software to your system? If so, disconnect it and try again.
The black screen is an indication that the windows os is not booting onto the system. If you have the recovery console installed, or have the cds, you can run the recovery console to troubleshoot or repair your installation of windows. This procedure is different for xp or vista, so we need to know what os you're on, as well as any error messages you see when it fails to boot.
To begin with, try tapping F8 as it boots up and see it you can get into the OS options screen, then choose Last Known good configuration to boot windows.
Here's a great article to help you troubleshoot the situation, then let us know how it goes and what comes up..

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sounds like ,audio card went died or mite be screen has shorted out try hooking it up an orther screen and see if it boots up if so either viedo screen card or screen it self