7811fx died on me?

It started yesterday, simply froze in windows 7, while browsing. So i shut it down forcefully by holding power button. On the next boot, it passed gateway bios windown and stuck on windows loading logo, so did forced shutdown again. tried to power on, all lights came on, fans turned on but screen was black. Turned it off, went to sleep, woke up few ahours after, went to work, came back, it powered on nicely, but i immediatly started backing up most important things, and it froze on 30% moving pictures. Forced shut down again, and on power on it stuck on bios gateway logo, and could not forcefully shut it down. So i removed battery. And now when i press power on, i get a BEEP, and everything lights up, fans turns on, but screen remains black/dark. What could it be? thanks

 

Try external monitor or TV.

 

Things you could check but will be tough to test unless the computer runs:
RAM
Hard Drive
Power Supply (I don't suppose you have another one)
Seems to be trouble before you get to Windows.

Using external monitor was ok idea to see if it is inverter but I don't think you would have had the lock ups.

You can access your hard drive from another computer with an external dock like this for around $30. Nice to have anyway. USB 2 is fine but try to get USB 3 for future if not too expensive.

Pull your RAM and re-seat. Try one stick at a time in case one went bad. Also swap slots.

 

Sounds like what Happened to me. But I have a 6860 FX, I haven't gotten it figure out either. My conclusion for my computer is the GPU. I had done what Syngensmyth said. If you fail all that stuff, it maybe your GPU as well.

Hope this helps.

PS: Not sure if your model is the same , but on mine if you look on the touchpad you normally see the hard drive icon blinking and CD drive blinking (If you have a CD you boot off of). See if the light keeps blinking or not. That may help you .

 

Also sounds like it could be HEAT related. Make sure you've cleaned/blown out your cooling vents... let the system sit and cool to ambient temp... then try again.

 

Its the hard drive failure or heat issues. I to did a lot of re search but nothing worked.. all you need to do is format your laptop.

 

If it is a hard drive failure,(mechanical failure) formatting it again is dumb.

 

probably GPU overheating. Clean it out but also more importantly be sure the GPU fan kicks on. if the GPU fan does not spin up this would explain the fact it does not cool off enough for you to reboot right away..........