Onion Posted June 19, 2009 Posted June 19, 2009 The symptoms seem to be the same as the second laptop I fried. Yesterday night, my dad was working on the laptop his lap. He was typing some stuff into excel, and then all of a sudden it shut off. He left it off for 5 minutes or so thinking it was a heat problem, then turned it on again. Now it doesnt do anything when you press the power button other than turn on the fan to low speed and light the LEDs. The screen stays black, no beep codes or anything. What should I do? I'm going to take it appart today and see if I can pull the cmos battery. Let's hope its not soldered in place like the second laptop he had. This laptop is a Compaq Presario F700. The second laptop he fried was an Acer Aspire 5100 which ended up with a dead motherboard. The first one, which I fried, was an HP Pavilion DV1000. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverclockTheStock Posted June 19, 2009 Posted June 19, 2009 The Acer aspire 5100 is VERY prone to overheating. I had one myself. You should invest in one good laptop with an extended warranty, and one of those cooling fans. Also what you can do is make a USB fan to cool it http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type...sb+fan&aq=f Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted June 19, 2009 Posted June 19, 2009 Well, the acer died a while back so all that is history now. On the good side: I pulled out the battery and popped it back in, and now it works again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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