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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:25 pm    Post subject:  Whoopsie Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Sup guys, my laptop won't boot anymore and it only shows a black screen. I'll try to work around it and check all the possibilities, like ram, bios, hdd, mb, gpu and cpu tomorrow. The worst case may be that all the newest work I've done so far are gone, but I have made couple of backups and newest one might have been made 1-2 months ago.

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Lin Kuei Ominae
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

if the screen is always black, maybe your lcd display is broken.
do you get into bios or is the boot process already stopped before?

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

No bios booting. Only fancy power light flashing in the corner and fan spinning...

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

This happened to my laptop once, although for me it was its death. The fan powered up and the power light lit up but it did nothing. It was out of warranty and the only explanations for the problem that we came up with were motherboard or processor failure. If you have an external hard drive (the small, portable ones) then you can open them up, take your laptop's hard drive out and replace it in the external's case. They have an adapter that allows 2.5" drives to connect to USB, that's what I did when my laptop broke anyway.

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

My laptop is FSC Amilo Pa 1538 and I checked few forums and it seems that this kind of issue is happening for many who has the same laptop as I do...

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ORCACommander
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

oh damn me and DA were talking about his laptop before this happened and how he had updated the BIOS a few weeks ago... Did I jinx it?

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Well, shit happens. So far I've checked HDD, RAM, MB and CPU and none of them seems be fried. I've tried to boot without HDD and RAM. MB didn't give the usual beeps it gives when the RAM is its place when I took the them off. I think I'll test the GPU with an external monitor very soon...

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Checked with an external monitor and it gave "No signal"...

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

so how about you just send it in for repairs? passed warranty period?

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

It's weekend now and no one's going to anwer the phone at the store I bought the laptop from and I'm not sure if the warranty is still valid...

EDIT: Just checked the store's website and it says that all of their laptops gets 1 year of warranty and I've bought it 1-1,5 years ago.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Sad

Try to pay them?

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partyzanPaulZy
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

If EU wasn't such bunch of lobbists and businessmen ...
They should set minimal warranty for whole EU to 2 years, but this won't happen, rather reverse process. Mad
We have 2 years warranty for most of the goods (exlusions are food and so) here. But then it usually brokes down (like that AMD Athlon 64 3000+ in Fujitsu-Siemens my parents had). It's like car tyres. They are able to make tyres with lifetime of car, but who would do it?

To that AMD: Once I have been playing on that PC when it frozen, week later it has been freezing much more (reducing CPU temperature was helping a bit, but nobody told me what was wrong) and in the end it ended with: ventilators running, HDD running, diodes lighting, keyboard and mouse lighting, monitor reporting NO SIGNAL. I should have known it was CPU while I had to lower it's temperature to make it workable a bit.
The solution? Upgrade (in the case only HDD and DVD-RW unit remained original), it has been year, but still it needs reinstallation of Windows, etc. (those morons who upgraded that PC haven't told us about necessary reinstallation which I hope will work via format with no A: needed).

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Von Kriplespac
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Heres a suggestion, find a computer repair center, doesn't matter who, and take it in for repair.

Yes, it will cost money. Yes, it could take time.

However in the end, yes, you'll have a functioning laptop again. #Tongue

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

That'll be the last option and before that I'm trying to do everything I can. However, this is quite interesting. I tried button combination Fn+B for my laptop and suddenly the fan started to run slower...

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IceDragon200
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Take out the hard drive or hard disk (Whatever)
and connect it to a desktop computer and copy the stuff off of it onto the desktop computer.
Its a SATA drive right?
That happened to my gateway laptop too except the motherboard got shorted out by some cheap ass pins.

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Okay, this is what I'm planning to do: Since everything indicates that the BIOS has failed (I think, checked many websites) I'll try to recover it by inserting USB 1,44mb diskette driver and running a recovery utility via that (other storage devices won't work at pre-BIOS). Before that, I'll get all the necessary files out the HDD by using my friends laptop and USB/FW HDD. If re-flashing the BIOS doesn't work I'll take it to the store I bought it from because I just found the warranty paper which says 3 years of warranty, yay!. Well, it's frigging x-mas and that store might not be open at holydays and the manufacturer might take soooooo long to replace the motherboard... >__>

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Woop. Got files out of the hdd. I'll hazzle with the usb floppy drive next week...

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hmm...sounds like very good news, Donut.

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DonutArnold
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Got floppy disk drive couple of days ago, but recovering bios didn't work, so I decided to check FSC forums one last time if the problem was originally caused by them and it was. Originally FSC installed invalid/damaged/"undamaged till this day" components like motherboards and/or gpu cards to this model laptops and some others too. Smells like a cheesy plan by FSC, so after warranty those laptops breaks aparts, but luckily my laptop had 3 years of warranty.

Yesterday I sent my laptop to the manufacturer and the guy at the store said that the manufacturer guys'd have brought the laptop from our home with no cost. How the hell could I have known that... It might take 1-3 weeks to fix it... lazy asses... with new parts it'd take couple of hours from me... >____>

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ORCACommander
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

well good luck with a speedy repair.

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