Laptop Woes

kevbiss1 · 22 Jan 2014 at 00:02

My MSI CR640 which ive owned for over two years has run well with no problems until the SSD i fitted shortly after purchase decided to play up. so i decided to fit the original HDD which worked fine. I swapped back to my defective ssd to retrieve data and somehow the screen went black and since then my pc would not boot,not even letting me get into the bios
The hdd does spin and the cpu gets warm but the laptop reboots after about 10 secs.
i think my mobo is shot
As money is tight i need to repair this laptop
Imm struggling to find any desent sites for repairs/motherboard renewal

Any suggestions would be welcome

Thanks

Space Monkey · 22 Jan 2014 at 11:37

Have you removed the battery, un-plug from the mains and then hold the power button down for at least a few minutes (would help if you can also remove the bios battery on the motherboard but can still try if its not accessible).

kevbiss1 · 22 Jan 2014 at 16:35

After checking connections,still nothing. took the back off and removed the bios battery only to break two plastic lugs off !! now i cant fit the new battery,will have to use tape or something.
now secured with tape and making good connection,reassembled everything and even reapplied thermal paste onto heatsink/cpu. Still no good,im thinking its the motherboard for sure.
Anyone recommend a motherboard repair/replace company on the net?
i googled and didnt get any joy !

UKDTweak · 22 Jan 2014 at 16:39

Your best looking on the bay for a replacement board and doing it yourself.

nightmare99 · 22 Jan 2014 at 20:13

If it helps this is a Pegatron manufactured unit, try also searching for Pegatron mainboards.

kevbiss1 · 23 Jan 2014 at 08:09

nightmare99 said:
If it helps this is a Pegatron manufactured unit, try also searching for Pegatron mainboards.

Thats good,now ive got a manufaturers name i might get somewhere
Nothing on the Bay at the moment but ill keep looking

Thanks for the help guys

Calpol · 24 Jan 2014 at 18:10

kevbiss1 said:
Thats good,now ive got a manufaturers name i might get somewhere
Nothing on the Bay at the moment but ill keep looking

Thanks for the help guys

Take the back off, remove heat sink and ram and blast the mobo with a hairdyrer for 10-15 mins getting as much heat as you can around the GFX chip. Reassemble and test.

It can be a temp fix and has worked for me to eek out a few months life from a dell with similar symptoms