I'm trying to resolve this problem with my mates laptop. (Approx 5 years old - P4 with 256MB RAM)
Essentially you press the power on button and you can hear the cpu fan/hdd kick into life, but then about a second later it just turns itself off.
Things I have checked so far.
- Power Supply
- Battery
- Removed HDD and tested with my desktop PC - works fine.
The issue used to be an intermittent one, I.E. it did happen occasionally but it would boot after a few attempts, now it just doesn't boot at all.
I don't think it's a power supply problem as when plugged into the AC, the system led's come on to say it's charging.
I suspect it's a mobo failure or similar - any thoughts before I chuck it out the window?
Thanks in advance
Essentially you press the power on button and you can hear the cpu fan/hdd kick into life, but then about a second later it just turns itself off.
Things I have checked so far.
- Power Supply
- Battery
- Removed HDD and tested with my desktop PC - works fine.
The issue used to be an intermittent one, I.E. it did happen occasionally but it would boot after a few attempts, now it just doesn't boot at all.
I don't think it's a power supply problem as when plugged into the AC, the system led's come on to say it's charging.
I suspect it's a mobo failure or similar - any thoughts before I chuck it out the window?
Thanks in advance