Comments on: My laptop won’t boot after I cleaned it by taking the heat sink out and vacuuming it

By: maddie

maddie — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:32:24 +0000

I let my brother use my Dell Inspiron and he handed it back to me and let go when I didn’t completely have it in my hands, and it fell. But only the side of it and it fell on a carpet. What was on it froze so I turned it off and turned it back on. The Dell sign appeared, and loaded, and then what pops up is Error, Press F1 to Boot, and F2 to go to Setup. I tried to boot it and it says the same thing. But something else happened because I forgot to tell my brother to turn off my laptop if it gets to hot and he used it for a few hours after I used it for around two hours. Is there anything that could be wrong with it besides the heat sink, because I know that could be causing part of the problem. And my laptop was perfectly fine, nothing wrong with the screen, it turns on and off quickly, and the dvd part come out and in fine. And nothing seems damaged, any help???

By: Marc Jones

Marc Jones — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:44:58 +0000

I replaced my motherboard on a gateway solo 1450. Now when I boot I get power light but no bios read, no lcd display, and cooling fan doesn’t run now. What do I do from here to get back up and operating?

By: sam

sam — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:14:49 +0000

I believe I may have turned my graphics card off on my laptop,so when I try to start it nothing comes up on the screen but you can hear windows load in the background. Is there anyway to fix this? Please help.

By: arthur romano

arthur romano — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:19:12 +0000

After cleaning the fan assembly and duct work, using the manual for disassembly and reassembly laptop I get a resume failure notice, press any key to continue. Sometimes it dies right then, no power,all indicator lights for power and charge stay on. Sometimes it goes all the way into windows, then dies, same as above. This is the first problem I’ve had with this unit.
I’ve gone into the bios when possible and reset to factory defaults. Still no success. I am going to try the remove bios battery trick, to clear any errors if they exist. I hope for other options as well. I will pass on the results. Thanks.

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:13:10 +0000

unTECHy,

I completely disassembled unit looking for any type of water damage or any other form of physical damage. Everything looks fine. I even looked at each chip as usually water damage causes chips to short circuit and can usually be seen.

If the laptop is still disassembled you can try this. Connect only three main parts: motherboard, processor and memory, nothing else. Plug in the AC adapter and turn on the laptop. If the power LED still flashes, apparently the motherboard had been damaged, you just cannot see the damage.

By: unTECHy

unTECHy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:45:38 +0000

* I even removed the cmos battery for about an hour to see if it would ‘reset’ the dang thing. Nope.

By: unTECHy

unTECHy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:44:00 +0000

I completely disassembled unit looking for any type of water damage or any other form of physical damage. Everything looks fine. I even looked at each chip as usually water damage causes chips to short circuit and can usually be seen.

I just figured that the flashing yellow lights at the power led indicated a specific problem. Usually the led is green and steady so flashing yellow should be a warning indication. I just don’t know what it is indicating.

Any more help would be appreciated.

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:56:25 +0000

unTECHy,

After trying it this morning all I get when I plug power and/or battery in is a series of flashing from the power LED. It flashes in series of 3-2-3. Nothing happens if I hit the power button. Just the flashing light.
Any suggestions on what is going on here?

Apparently water went down to the motherboard and damaged it. The only way to find out what is going on is disassemble the laptop and take a closer look at each part inside.

By: unTECHy

unTECHy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:20:29 +0000

During a recent storm, my Toshiba 1405-S171 was in direct contact with an open window and received a little bit of water.

I initially thought it was no biggy as there wasn’t much water on it so I removed the power from it and let it dry for a couple of days.

After trying it this morning all I get when I plug power and/or battery in is a series of flashing from the power LED. It flashes in series of 3-2-3. Nothing happens if I hit the power button. Just the flashing light.

Any suggestions on what is going on here?

Thanks in advance,

Keith

By: nick

nick — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:22:24 +0000

my Toshiba A45-s121 laptop did not boot after i shutdown it. When i turned it on, the 4 LEDs are just steady and nothing happens. I didn’t drop the laptop. It just failed suddenly