Laptop turns on but nothing appears on the screen
I have the following symptoms with my laptop. When I press the power button it lights up and I hear the fan and a single click sound, but nothing appears on the screen and it does nothing else. To power it off, I have to hold down the power button for about 10 seconds. Things I’ve tried so far: Removed & replaced existing battery; removed & replaced existing hard drive… still nothing. Please help!
That could be memory failure. Try reconnecting the memory module, moving it into the empty slot. If both memory slots are occupied, remove modules one by one and test the laptop with each one separately.
Let’s say your laptop starts fine with the module 1 but will not start when the module 2 is installed. If that’s the case, the memory module 2 is bad and has to be replaced.
December 1st, 2011 at 2:45 pm
LAPTOP GATEWAY MX6900 SERIES.
Continuing with this issue, I did almost all I read on the internet suggests; removed/changed perifericals (HD, video card, memories, dvd drive, etc). Now I recovered the bios display and it can show me the HD and DVD. Now the big issue is no boot from CDrom, I changed the HD with OS and nothing happen…next step is connect a USB boot system or a USB HD with OS.
Do you have other idea? Thanks for your response.
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Oh that’s bad. I’m sorry I was not able to help you. I did not try to fix a laptop, I only tried to fix desktop PC’s.
July 16th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
i have the same problem but with no sounds. the processor light blinks one time and thats it. nothing shows up on the screen, i have replaced the hard drive and memory, tried different memory chips but still nothing. i think it may be the motherboard
July 13th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
if my toshiba was canceled in the minddle of clearing of the hard drive and will now only show there is a cable connection problem what do you do?