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    NW8000 booting/shutdown troubles

    Discussion in 'HP' started by adaminc, Oct 28, 2007.

  1. adaminc

    adaminc Newbie

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    Ok, here's my problem, just recently (since friday) my laptop (HP NW8000) has been acting strange, it has trouble booting, and it will randomly "shut down".

    When I try to start the laptop, I press the power button, the fan will come on, the bluetooth/wifi light, power light, ac power light and the hdd light all come on, but the screen doesnt turn on, this lasts for about 10 seconds, then everything turns off. It will do this everytime I press the power button unless I give it a nice smack over the right side the keyboard, then it sometimes decides it will boot up. I know I shouldn't be smacking my laptop, but this is all that seems to work to get it to boot up.

    Now, after it actually decides to boot up, it will boot fine into windows, however if I touch the laptop, anywhere on the laptop, even as light as regular typing, the screen will turn off, the harddrive light turns on and stays on, the bluetooth/wifi light stays on, the power light stays on, and the computer seems to freeze, also any external USB devices lose power (usb mouse/keyboard lights turn off).

    I've tried everything I can think of, first I tried booting without the batteries (I have a extra multibay battery), I then tried with only 1 battery, I then took out the extra ram I added, I then tried putting in the old 40gb hdd (100gb in it now), I tried unhooking the wifi, I tried unhooking the bluetooth, I opened up the laptop to look for loose connections and didnt find any.

    I am completely lost as to what to do next, I am fearing the worst that its a processor or motherboard problem, dead component or something. All I want right now is to find out what the problem is, there was someone who had a similar problem back in april or may, I have sent them a message because they didnt put any solutions on their thread.

    If anyone has any ideas, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee let me know.

    Spec's are as follows:
    15" UXGA Screen
    Pentium M 1.73GHz
    1.5GB RAM
    100GB HDD
    W500 802.11b/g
    HP Bluetooth
    DVD/CDRW
    2nd Battery - Multibay
     
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    Ok, well, according to one user on this forum who seems to have had the same problem, but with an NC8000, it was the power supply. Thats probably what it is, so I will see if I can get a quote for a fixing, or possibly a new mobo. Unless anyone here has any other ideas?
     
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