Broken my laptop, quick help please hardware wise.

James07 · 21 Apr 2008 at 15:36

All i did was take it apart for cleaning, cleaned a lot of dust, put it all back together and it wont boot!

The screen now wont come on and i cant hear any activity from the hard disk at all, but i didnt take that out anwyay as i couldnt really get to it bcos there was something catching the chassis on that side so i left that, i took the heatsink and cpu off, i took another heat sink off that i think was over something to do with the gfx and now it just wont boot.

The screen wont come on at all, at first the computer started for 2 seconds and went off, thought it was power so i plugged in the power but still nothing, i dont know what to do now and im annoyed as i paid £300 second hand on the bay so i cant even get it repaired for free under guarantee.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

James.

PhoenixUK · 21 Apr 2008 at 15:57

take out the heatsinks again, and put them slowly in, and i mean very very slowly checking if everything is sticking in the right place or maybe you pulled off some jumper , cable or whatever when doing it.

I'm not laptop specialist so i'm not sure how does it look out there but looks to me like your CPU got fried up ;-)

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James07 · 21 Apr 2008 at 16:01

fried up? whys that? the heatsink was on before i started it up i made sure of that one.

its gone quiet like its on standby.. and i press the off button and its straight off like its in post boot or something..

James07 · 21 Apr 2008 at 16:06

you know when you turn the laptop on and you get the 1st phase of boot? Whwre you can enter bios etc, well wen you press the off button in that phase the comp goes straight off right?

Well on my laptop its turning straight off like its in that phase, i press the button and instant reaction, cut of power.

Now, i think that its not booting properly therefore not sending power to my screen of other parts, how do i fix that?!

AmDaMan · 21 Apr 2008 at 16:09

Sounds like a GPU issue, but check everything is seated right again.

Try pressing lightly under the laptop where the GPU is while turning it on.

PhoenixUK · 21 Apr 2008 at 16:20

Oh ok so it's starting but isn't showing anything. Thought it's not starting at all.
Then yeah sounds like GPU, but do the things i said earlier, doesn't cost anything to try, it can be pretty much anything. Were you applying any thermal compound onto CPU or GPU chips ? Because if it's lets say AS5 and some of it goes onto wrong thing it might cause some troubles.

James07 · 21 Apr 2008 at 16:22

FIXED!! You wouldnt actually belive the issue.

Ill post it later, job interview time now.

londonbairn · 21 Apr 2008 at 16:53

EMpty battery?

Equin0x · 21 Apr 2008 at 17:01

Did you accidentally pull out the cable connecting the screen ?

/me waits in suspense

James07 · 21 Apr 2008 at 18:51

Welllllll, i took most of it apart to get all the dust up, when putting it back together i fogot to open the port for the cpu, a little screw loosened the port...

I forgot about this and just put the cpu on top and then the heatsink...

Well!!! When i figured it out, i put it back together and it worked, shocking eh.

Annoying but atleast its working now eh! Muppet i am.

PhoenixUK · 21 Apr 2008 at 20:52

James07 said:
Welllllll, i took most of it apart to get all the dust up, when putting it back together i fogot to open the port for the cpu, a little screw loosened the port...

I forgot about this and just put the cpu on top and then the heatsink...

Well!!! When i figured it out, i put it back together and it worked, shocking eh.

Annoying but atleast its working now eh! Muppet i am.

Glad that you sorted it out.
And as I've mention earlier, always good to double check everything again :-)

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I remember once trying to figure out for 40 min what's wrong after realising that the GPU fan wasnt connected ~~.