Z71 just won't boot

so, i press the power button, the cpu lights up, nothing else happens. The light stays on, the screen is off, i can't hear the HD moving much at all, and it just feels like it froze before it could do anything.

this happened after i tried to wake it from standby and it froze with the cpu light on, and nothing on screen.

I've had it for over a year now with no problems, sometimes it stalls when it comes out of standby, but never for that long, and never when booting.

with nothing to go on, i really don't know how to approach this.

any advice?

 

If you only looking at your first two sentences, I'd say it seems like the ram.

After looking at the rest, I think you may have just encountered a random error. You can try to clear that by pushing a pin in the little pinhole that resets the bois - under the unit.

 

Hey ProPortable, thanks for the reply,i tried following through with your advice, but it's still stalling the exact same way at start up.

I'm gonna try to open it up and removing each of my 2 sticks of ram and see if thats the problem.

 

After doing everything mentioned, it turned out to be something i never thought it would be.

The VGA, it caused the laptop to stop before POST, before anything was shown on screen. Replaced it and everything returned to normal.

Problem was that it's the only video card in my system, **there was nothing else to fall back on**, so now it's easier to imagine it being the problem.

Thanks for the suggestions.