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    Help, my nx7000 is dying! Won't even POST now.

    Discussion in 'HP' started by basonsubatomia, Feb 13, 2006.

  1. basonsubatomia

    basonsubatomia Newbie

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    I've had this computer for around 1.5 years, and I bought it second hand in immaculate condition from a guy who had it for 6 months. I've always treated it as nice as possible, but I usually just put it bare in my backpack with nothing else in that compartment - I do use my backpack for other things, so it's possible some particles got into the thing.

    Just recently, I started it up and when Windows finished loading, I went to open a browser window and horizontal pixel lines of varying length on the right hand side of the screen started to cycle through different portions of the display and the computer froze.

    I rebooted it, and it wouldn't even POST this time! The hard drive indicator lit up for a split second and then nothing else happened.

    I got to a place where I could do some tinkering, and took out the extra stick of RAM and tried to boot it and it POSTed fine, but got halfway through the windows XP loading screen and then exhibited the same screen malfunction and then shut down. Again, restarted it and it wouldn't POST.

    I took the hard drive out, blew compressed air into every vent hole I could find, took the keyboard off and there didn't seem to be any dust in there but I shot compressed air into every nook and cranny, but to no effect. I tried it with no battery, with the battery in but plugged in, with a fully charged battery... nothing, no POST.

    I left it for a couple of days, and tried it again (with the RAM and everything back in) and it booted fine, but had an early-session glitch and shut down like it did when I first had these problems.

    Any ideas on what it could be or where to go from here? I mean, I'm not quite destitute or anything, but I don't really want to have to get a new laptop.

    Thanks,
    Jason
     
    basonsubatomia, Feb 13, 2006
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  2. vassil_98

    vassil_98 Notebook Deity

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    To me this sounds like a minor wire problem or motherboard problem. In what temperatures do you usually keep it? It might be that some solder got cracked. I don't think this is something you can fix if you don't have some special skills as well as instruments
     
    vassil_98, Feb 14, 2006
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