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Anonymous Posted on Jan 23, 2009

Laptop not powering

Can't get laptop to turn on. Battery pack lights show full charge, power cord is plugged in. No indicator lights illuminating at all, wondering if it is my motherboard. Compaq Presario 2200 laptop.

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    pontelemon May 11, 2010

    "No indicator lights illuminating" - which light are you talking about?

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Try a simple power cycle. Take out the battery, leave power adapter plugged in. Hold down the power button for about one minute. Then hit the power button normally this should correct the problem

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very first thing u have do is if u have any other laptop try and connect the aac adaptor with that laptop and also try the battery if it is working with the other laptop that means the motherboard of the computer has gone bad u need to replace it and what also u can try is disconnect the ac adaptor and take out the battery from the laptop and the without ac adaptor and the battery press and hold down the power button for one minute and then connect the ac adaptor and put the battery back in and then try and turn on the computer and also what u can do is shut down the computer first and then just hit the power butoon once only to turn it on and then keep tapping f8 key on the keyboard and it will take u to windows advance options and select safe mode with networking and then try if it turns on to the windows screen or not......and if it doesnt turn ono then definately replace the motherboard...good luck....

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