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    Laptop Won't Boot

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Oatmeat, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. Oatmeat

    Oatmeat Newbie

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    A little over a year ago I bought a MX6455 laptop, but now I'm running into problems with it. I was using it like normal when a BSOD came up about "page fault in non-paged area." Now whenever I try to boot it up, the fans start up for a second and it looks like it might boot, but then everything goes quiet. The monitor never turns on, the machine never POSTs, and I don't even hear the harddrive spin up. But after everything has shutdown, I can still open and close the cd-tray (so I don't think it's a power problem). Any guesses as to what the problem might be?

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    Oatmeat, Jul 10, 2007
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    someone777 Notebook Evangelist

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    umm maybe monitor failure??
    becuase although yours is gateway i know that the all fans run at the boot up. like 2 and later on is 1..
     
    someone777, Jul 10, 2007
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    Update: The problem has been fixed. I opened up the laptop and reseated the RAM.
     
    Oatmeat, Jul 17, 2007
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