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Zenicman

Zenicman

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  • #1
    Hey Guys

    Earlier in the week I turned my laptop on now soon after turning the laptop on it shut its self down. Now I thought it had gone on stand by as I wasn’t near it for about 20 minutes now this wasn’t the case.

    I unplugged all of the leads and the charger as well as the battery as this usually works but it didn’t it keeps showing an orange light on the batter and it wont turn on.

    Does anyone know what is wrong with it?
     
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    compuclean

  • #2
    Of the top of my head, it could possibly be your power adapter - sounds like the battery is not charging.

    They cost about £30+, so I'd see if anyone has the same type of laptop and try their power adapter before you go and get a new one.
     
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    WhatManufacturersWant

  • #5
    Yes. However, if the adapter is working the orange low battery light should turn green or another LED should come on to indicate power has been applied depending on the model.

    Taking both the lead and the battery out usually results in no LED very quickly.
     
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    Lanarkshire IT Services

  • #8
    i had a pc doing this a while back. randomly rebooted and on pressing restart it completely shut down.

    it was a packard bell job. so i opened it and found the cpu was overheating with most of the thermal paste burned dry.

    cleaned cpu and heat sink. applied artic silver 5 and voila good as new again.

    worth a try
     
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    ozbon

  • #11
    It sounds to me like it's either overheating, or your battery is now completely dead.

    Replacement laptop batteries are expensive - you'll quite possibly pay £100 or more for a new battery, so it's a decision about whether you want to keep the old laptop, or get a new one and then copy the data across from old laptop hard-drive to the new one. (If you've also got a PC, you could possibly look at getting a drive caddy that'll take a laptop drive, and then connect to the PC via USB or Firewire so you can get the relevant data off the drive - something like this, perhaps)
     
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    leemason

  • #12
    How old is the laptop. It sounds to me as if it could be a faulty motherboard. I had a similar problem with a laptop some time ago where the power light came on but nothing else and it was the motherboard. If this is the problem and it is still under warranty then send it back to be fixed. If not it's probably not worth trying to fix it as a new motherboard will cost a fair bit so best to replace it.

    If you have data that you want to get back then the best thing would be to take the disk out of the old laptop and get an adapter to connect it up to a desktop machine (or get an external USB case to connect to your new laptop) and get the data off that way. I purchase an external USB2 case for 2.5" drive recently on ebay for £3.99 including postage.
     
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  • #13
    I'm leaning towards the overheating angle myself here tbh.

    The only way to definitively know is to get it to a repair shop (a real one, not one of those little local ones who give out technical diagnosis like 'its knackered').

    Is this the one we spoke about quite a while ago Kev? If so, stick it in the post to us and we'll have a look. We have a workshop specifically for laptop repair, and can work at PCB level if it needs it. We'll take a look, let you know what is wrong, and give you an idea of how much to fix it. No cost to you except the p&p charges if you decide not to proceed at that stage.
     
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    WhatManufacturersWant

  • #14
    I don't get this. I thought this one had been put to bed long ago. Buy a new laptop as suggested earlier. If your battery is so old that it's useless then so is your laptop compared to today's offerings. The more you switch it on and have it not work the more likely you are to crash the drive and then you'll not only have a dead PC but lose the information on the hard drive to boot (ho ho - sorry)
     
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