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    Ux32vd won't boot after ssd & ram upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by kingace, Sep 22, 2012.

  1. kingace

    kingace Newbie

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    Yesterday I recieved my samsung 830 ssd and my kingston sodimm and installed them in my ux32vd. At first, it wouldn't boot when pressing the power key so I thought "I must have unplugged the battery by accident" so I reoppened it and checked everything, but everything seemed fine. After screwing back everything, I tried Powering it again, but to no avail.

    I was about to post here, but just when I oppened my phone it decided to power up. Unfortunately I couldn't install windows because of a "dvd driver missing" error so I left it there and went to bed. When I oppened it in the morning, the power was already on, keyboard was lite, but the screen was black. I couldn't manage to get anything on the screen nor close it so I unplugged it from the wall and let it run out of battery. Now it seem charged (green light on charger) but won't boot. I tried holding the power key amd pressing it multiple times, but nothig works.

    Please help!
     
    kingace, Sep 22, 2012
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    If you didn't remove the battery and you replaced the RAM and HDD/SSD without removing the battery - you have probably fried the MB.

    Try putting in the original RAM and HDD (making sure to remove the battery first) and see if you have any response in the system.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Sep 23, 2012
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  3. kingace

    kingace Newbie

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    I will go get a screw extractor (I tightened a screw a little bot too hard) and try putting back the original HDD and ram and see how it works out.
     
    kingace, Sep 23, 2012
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  4. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    If care is taken you can hot plug memory and the drive, this is highly not recomended to do however. I had to do this with this system where a DDR3 stick I burnt with too hot a timing in the SPD with Typhon burner. Had to boot with the good stick then insert the bad in the second slot as it would not boot with both sticks in. It saved the stick but truth be told never, ever, again, not worth it knowing you could fry it at any second. Tiller is right though it is so easy to have fried the system with any power to it.

    If your system boots the first suspect would be the RAM. Especially since the original 4GB is soldered to the board it is easy to get ram that will not cooperate. If I rememebr correctly alot of users were specifying to be sure to get similar timings for the ram to work. Now this is from memory so take it with a grain or two or three of salt...................
     
    TANWare, Sep 23, 2012
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