Asus G1S-A1 stuck at boot screen

I haven't actually turned off my laptop in some time (only hibernated). I took my laptop to a friend's and hibernated it before I left, turned it on over there, but then closed the lid. The laptop went into sleep mode and I pressed the spacebar to turn it back on, but it just went to a black screen. I held the power button to turn it off and back on, but it just goes to the "Asus gaming series" screen and does nothing.

The front power button shows a different, colorful Asus logo, but that screen also does nothing (Except you can press ctrl+alt+del on both screens to restart).

Pressing the top power button goes to that "Asus gaming series" logo, and I can press Esc or F2 to get to the American Megatrends BIOS screen (as if it's going into setup or going into the boot selection menu) but it never does that either.

What I've currently tried:

* Removing and reseating the RAM and HDD
* Removing the battery and AC cord and holding the power buttons for 45secs
* Pressing the little >o< button on the bottom for about 30 secs with the AC cord in, and with it out
* Trying each stick of RAM separately
* Reflashing the BIOS (but I couldn't because it wouldn't enter the flash utility [F4 I believe])
* Nothing was in any USB port, except for a flash drive when I was trying the BIOS flash
* Booting a few different discs (couldn't even get to screen to choose where to boot from)
* Booting without the HDD in

I've tried something once before when I had this problem that got it working again, but I'm not sure what it was. (

Thanks for any help.


Specs:

Asus G1S-A1
Windows 7
2.20GHz core 2 duo
4GB RAM (not stock)
1TB HDD (not stock)
BIOS is already flashed to 3.00 (or 300)

 

That's really weird. It sounds like the BIOS is waiting for something to POST. When you press F2, does the screen change at all?

Also, do you hear the HDD spinning up/behaving normally?

 

F2 changes to the AMI screen and says it's entering setup, but it never actually does. I think the HDD sounded fine on boot, but I'm not home right now to find out.

Also, you'd think if something *is* failing POST it'd tell me about it..

 

Sounds crazy but I'd try removing your hard drives and starting it up. See if you get a message like "No boot device found" or if it tries to boot from ethernet.

 

Sounds like a dead/dying hard drive to me as well. I've had desktop machines act similarly when the hard drives were perished.

 

Last item on my list..I tried with no harddrive in and got the same result.

 

Alright, weird. Mind trying it without your optical drive? Should be just one or two screws.

 

Took out the optical drive and got the same result. Also unhooked the wireless card for the hell of it, but again no change..

 

Very odd. I wonder what's causing it to not POST... I wonder if there's a CMOS reset somewhere. If you see a coin battery on the motherboard unplug it or disconnect it briefly, then put it back in. It'll reset the CMOS clock so if it's something temporary like that, it might work. Aside from that though, I'm out of ideas :/

EDIT

Actually the little button you pressed before should have done that.

...I'm out of ideas. Sorry man. Best of luck with the troubleshooting. I'll keep following along of course.

 

well I have this little >o< on the bottom that I've been told to hold down for a while and stuff that is supposed to reset it. I haven't taken it apart yet, but I guess I can do that tonight..

 

Your 8600m card may have just chip-creeped itself to death. You know it's just a matter of time. :-/

All of those cards are defective, maybe you can reflow it.

You can try all the usual tricks, one stick of ram at a time, pull the drives, reset the CMOS.

Sounds like hardware failure to me tho.

 

I'll probably look into it tonight, but yeah I've already tried all the usual tricks.. No harm in cracking it open to see what's going on. It sure ain't gonna fix itself by sittin there..

 

Failed Bluetooth module. Just unplugged it and everything's fine now.