My father-in-law has a Gateway 7422 laptop, running XP Home. Recently, it stopped working. Nothing on powerup. No beeps. No cursor. Nothing. He doesn't have any rescue CDs, so I don't have those to try.
Any suggestions? Gateway tech support is no good, since the computer is out of warranty. All they did was confirm that, yes, it really doesn't start.
have him unplug anything he can. Make sure there's no CD in the CD player.
Take the battery out, maybe
remove the PCMCIA board if he has it
Have him power up and hit F2 repeadely and and see if he gets anything
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My next suggestion would be to start removing things - like memory, swap the hard drive, that sort of thing. I mean, the motherboard could be fried.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift
My fear/assumption is that it is the motherboard. Since I don't have a stockpile of parts to try to swap out here, I was kind of hoping for any other ideas.
My laptop wouldn't boot one time, and it turned out I had to remove the battery, leave it unplugged, and push down the power button for 30 seconds. Then hook it back up to power and see if it boots. The reason for pushing power is to drain it of any residual energy that may be there causing problems.
It did indeed work, so that's worth trying. But that might be a problem unique to HP laptops.
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