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Interesting, I'll check that out in a bit once I put it back together..:lol:
Oh I should add the wireless does work because when I was in Windows I connected to my network. But wonder if it shows...
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If you have no contact cleaner, try a bit of alcohol in there, being careful to not pour large quantities in.
Naturally, you should disconnect the laptop and remove the battery if you're going to...
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I know the feeling all too well.
Customer comes here complaining of a similar problem, I clean the ram, it works, the client goes home and is back a few hours later with the same problem....
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The actual Windows came up, I was able to run programs and go on the net. It actually ran pretty good , aside from all the junk files on there. The graphics look fine too.
BTW, I can replace it...
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:bigeye:
Yea I don't see me doing all that. but thanks, interesting to know that method. I'm going to read about it just for fun.
Gateway are notorious for having mobo failure at the 2 year mark....
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I think BGA packaging for video chips and the pressurized clamp design for memory modules are the two major reasons why they fail so easily on >13" laptops because of the motherboard flex. It has...
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I never liked the idea of putting an entire mobo into an oven.
We did it a different way, running the machine with the heat plate pulled away from the GPU chip, for X amount of time, for the same...
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Ok, tried resetting the BIOS, reseated the CMOS...it's safe to say it's the graphics card or something else on the mobo. So not messing with it anymore. It kills me to give in, but some things just...
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Yea, seems like the graphics card, which of course means new motherboard.
Just wondering if there was anything else I could try.:(
The weird thing is, the few times I got it working was right...
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Is thee any evidence that this model is susceptible to the poorly soldered graphics chip like we saw in a lot of older HP's?
If not, then it would be a waste of time to attempt the "heating" repair....
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if you have it apart try the heat gun method on the gpu chip http://hackaday.com/2011/02/24/heat-gun-gpu-reflow-fixes-laptop/ if not try blocking the vents for 20 mins (this is a temp fix to recover...
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try booting to safe mode
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Does it have discrete or integrated graphics? I'd flip a coin between bad MB and bad graphics card. More likely graphics if there's a discrete card, and more likely MB if graphics are integrated.
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I wouldn't replace the motherboard, since your not 100% sure that is the problem, and it's not exactly easy to do. New machines are cheap and powerful.
The question I had was you said you got...
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Computers sometimes do that, dying slowly, as opposed to instant death.
It's really a pain in the butt.
The intermittent problem is always the most difficult one to resolve, and it's time consuming...
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Yes. I actually helped fix a friends HP laptop this way. It would work but you had to heat it up first. He used the trick of putting it in a hotpad for about 10 min and then it would start. This...
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Ummmm curious, if it boots into Windows with no video, is the machine pingable across your network? Can you say get into it via Remote Desktop? Are there any statistics across your router that...
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It's my understanding that the OP doesn't even get a bios image, that is to say it doesn't post, which kind of rules out some network problems in Windows, or any Windows problems for that matter,...
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Ya it is scary. We did build a little stand and shield to focus the heat on the GPU. The way we figured it was a dead laptop and it was an all or nothing type effort. He was prepared to buy a new...
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I would reset the bios. Pull the battery out and the cmos battery, hold the power button down for 5-10 seconds and put it back together. It really does sound like the motherboard though unfortunately...
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I'll try some alcohol and see what it does..it looks pretty clean though.
I'll ask her what she wants to do. I feel bad because I told her yesterday it was running, but did say don't be too happy...
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You can try the method below if none of the above suggestions work. It will take a good 6 hours and require taking the laptop completely apart and put it back together and have the risk of breaking...
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I have a friend of mine's laptop and it's booting to a black screen. I can hear the HD and fans running, won't work on external monitor either. I got it to boot to Windows a few times yesterday. Just...
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If you are 100% sure that the ram is not the problem (if you can spray contact cleaner into the slots, that would be good), then the problem seems serious, a hardware failure, it could be the...
