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    P-6860 FX Gateway (Black Screen)

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by swissalps, Sep 2, 2011.

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    swissalps Notebook Geek

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    First I have been reading a lot of post. From Replacing the MotherBoard , to Baking the MB, to replacing the CMOS battery. I just wanted to see if I fall with in these problems.

    So on to what is wrong.

    I powered on my Gateway P6860 and all I got was the "Gateway Screen" tried hitting F2 and F10. No luck as it would just sit doing nothing for 20 mins. I did my normal checks , Removed Both hard drives , swapped out the ram in both bays, removed the wireless card and tried to see if I could boot of CD/DVD (Feroda,open suse,gpartition,iboot,window 7). Nothing Same Gateway Screen everytime.

    Read some of the forums and said should remove the CMOS and I did. (For future people - CMOS is under Wireless Adapter ) and now my Computer when I hit the Power Button is Black. The Lights come on the Multi media board, hard drive reads for 2 seconds, DVD drive reads for about 10 seconds and stops. Then the computer just sits there doing nothing. DVD drive will try and spin again 20 seconds later.

    So this is where I am now P6860fx will power on, but screen is 100% Black (No gateway screen anymore). No its not the monitor as the hard drive icon is not showing up as being read.

    Any help would be great. Thanks
    Laptop Specs
     
    swissalps, Sep 2, 2011
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    swissalps Notebook Geek

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    Same issue here with my P-7915U. Shut it down last night, went to start it up this morning and black screen, no boot logo, not a single thing. Did everything to troubleshoot, even took apart my display to see if the inverter wire was pinched. Everything looked good, GPU fan doesn't spin though, at all I believe.

    I even did the iPhone charger test to see if my display went out but it's a full no-boot.
     
    AndeUSMC, Sep 4, 2011
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    swissalps Notebook Geek

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    Well see I had the Gateway Screen Before but it wouldn't go past the boot. Now its all black and won't do anything. I did try another CMOS and see if it was that. Nope didn't work. So I think its the GPU/ Motherboard and the only think I have found on the net about fixing this is Baking it.

    Now is this true about Baking a MotherBoard or are you guys pulling peoples legs ?



    PS: I am looking to replace this computer now with a Dell XPS 17
    Specs are in french,sry

    *Processeur Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM de 2e génération à 2,00 GHz avec technologie Turbo Boost pour une extension jusqu'à 2,90 GHz
    *Ecran 44 cm(17.3 pouces) HD+ WLED True-Life (1600x900) avec webcam 2.0 méga pixels intégrée
    *8 192 Mo (2 x 4 096) de mémoire bicanale DDR3 SDRAM à 1 333 MHz
    *Double disque dur SATA de 1 To (2 x 500 Go, 7 200 tr/min)
    *Lecteur DVD+/-RW 8X
    *Carte graphique 3 Go NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M
    *Batterie principale Li-Ion à 9 cellules (90 Wh)
    *Processeur Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1000
     
    swissalps, Sep 5, 2011
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