Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:
Whoopsie
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. QUICK_EDIT
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? _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject:
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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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... QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject:
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? _________________
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... QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:55 am Post subject:
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.
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). _________________
Don't blame the others if you haven't checked your own (in)ability in the first case. QUICK_EDIT
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... QUICK_EDIT
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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Got other things doing.... QUICK_EDIT
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... >__> QUICK_EDIT
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... >____> QUICK_EDIT
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