C90s - Monitor Will Not Come On

Last night I powered down my laptop and all seemed to be going well. Now that I have tried to turn it on though nothing is showing on the display. Not even a hint of light or color, it seems to be fully off. I am not at all tech savvy so I followed some suggestions I found around the net.

• I popped off the hinge covers to check if any of the connections were broke, they were fine.
• I tried to use a Ubuntu cd to load from, no life shown on the monitor.
• I tried to plug in a second old crt monitor, no life. When I power the computer on or off it flicks from standby to active for a few seconds. The only way I could tell this is that the monitor power light changes colors when active/not active.
• I tried clicking the fn key and f7 and f8.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

What part of the computer could it be causing this? The graphics card?

 

Fiddled around a bit longer and still 0 luck. I am pretty sure something died on me. I am just not sure what part it is I should be looking to replace.

 

It is definitely your GPU. You may try "baking" the GPU which I did before. There are a lot of videos around. Just google it. Be careful not to overdo it as this can melt components and render it totally unusable.

Otherwise you can look into ebay for a replacement 8600m GT.

 

I noticed on a lot of the videos I have seen that there is at least some sort of image showing with their dying/dead cards. It seems odd that mine worked 100% one day, then when powering up the next I get no image whats so ever on the screen during any part of powering up or down.

I am not so sure if I am willing to try baking. It seems pretty unreliable. Especially since I want to make sure the issue is the GPU before I go warping it.

 

I just want to make sure. Is there any way to be certain that it is the gpu? I do not want to bake a part that was not faulty.

 

You can plug an external monitor into your machine and see if that works if it still doesn't then the GPU is most likely dead. Baking won't damage anything so long as you don't cook it at more than 200C and not for longer than 10 mins at that temp. IE prehead the oven first. Put the card upside down on balls of foil and after switching oven off do not move the card for an hour to let it (the solder) to cool and solidfy once more. Leave oven door open during cooling process

If it is HDD failure you will get to bios screen I have had this happen before in my C90S and if it is your motherboard your machine will constantly reboot after started and then shut off again this has happened to me with my C90P. Yup been pretty unlucky lol

The other way to be certain is to get a replacement GPU. As for the signs of death it really varies you might get warning signs such as lines but then again it can just die on you. I got a replacement 8600M GT from asus that was DOA and it worked after baking. Shows how ridicously rubbish the 8600M GT is.

 

Alright. I have some spare time tomorrow and I am going to trust the baking suggestion. Hopefully some sort of image can be brought back.

So I have not removed or put in a gpu before. I am guessing it is the big piece of hardware right below the fans. Anything I should know about removing it?

Also I was wandering, should I try less then ten minutes at first?

EDIT: Oh yes. About handling the part. I know static can pass from the hand but I heard touching a door knob or something metal before handling should be enough. Is this correct?

 

Is this ( ebay link) the correct graphics card? I just wanted to make sure first, although I am pretty sure it is.

On baking, it did not work. I likely could have tried baking it more than ten minutes but I do not think it would have helped. I had to keep the little panel piece on it attached. I managed to get three screw's out but the fourth seemed to already be stripped and I was unable to get it off. I just swiveled the panel off to the side as not to block anything. I do not think I will be able to get the screw out so I am likely going to need to snap off the panel from the card. It is a shame. I wander why Asus would leave in a stripped screw or how they stripped it in the first place.