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    p6860fx problems

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by arstron, Oct 26, 2009.

  1. arstron

    arstron Notebook Guru

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    Last night my laptop was working just fine, however when I got to work this morning I started having issues. When I start the laptop without it plugged into the charger, all the leds accross the top (power buttons and media bar) as well as the power led on the front come on for a few seconds and then turn off. With the charger plugged in, it comes on the same way and stays, however the bios never posts.

    Here is a list of things I have tried:
    sit powering on for up to 10 minutes
    Removed the cmos battery, laptop battery, and charger cord for 5 minutes
    Removed all ram
    removed all ram and the wireless network card
    Removed all ram, wireless network card, and the hard drives
    Tried booting without the cmos battery
    Installed only the factory hard drive

    All of which gave me the same results. No beeps, no post, no nothing. My laptop is mostly stock, except since last Friday I was running 2 60 gig OCZ Vertex SSD's in a raid 0 configuration. I used the laptop all weekend without even a hiccup. I am now officially out of ideas, however I was reading a older post on blind flashing the bios, would this be my best next step. If so I will get a usb floppy drive ordered. I am pretty sad, this laptop has treated me good, I picked it up from my local best buy the first day they had it in stock.


    EDIT: One other thought I had, would it be worth while trying another processor in it? I have access to another mobile core 2 duo that I could try.

    Edit #2: Sorry also forgot to say, I did try hooking it up to an external monitor and still nothing, fn + f4 does nothing either with the monitor hooked up. Also thought it would be worth noting, the fans do not spin up at all.
     
  2. stephen0205

    stephen0205 Notebook Consultant

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    sounds like your motherboard has packed in, i mean you have tried everything else, i was gonna suggest the monitor until i seen your edit
     
  3. arstron

    arstron Notebook Guru

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    Well I went ahead and ordered a usb floppy drive, I am going to try the blind flash anyway, its not like I can brick it any worst then it is. If anyone has anything else I can try, I am up for anything. I am fairly experienced when it comes to computers and I have had my laptop fully apart to arctic silver on the gpu and cpu (never got around to replacing the thermal pad on the north bridge though). That was about a year ago. I guess if it is no good, I can always part out the good parts if I cant get it running again.
     
  4. arstron

    arstron Notebook Guru

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    Well the blind flash didnt work, after 2 hours of trying it, I am finally giving up, doesnt seem the usb is giving out any power at all. Also I noticed that when the battery is out, but the power cord is plugged in, when I turn the laptop on the power button steadily flashes. I dont suppose that would be a clue for anyone?