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    Compal IFL90 Won't Start (black screen)

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by Peter5897, Nov 8, 2007.

  1. Peter5897

    Peter5897 Notebook Guru

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    I've had the computer for about a month or two and it's been working fine up until now.

    I came home from school to eat a little lunch and I decided to turn on my computer. When it was turning on I noticed that a little air pocket had appeared near the "open your friggin' web-browser" quick button that's located next to the power button. When the computer was starting up I tried to "move" the air pocket but when I started messing around with it my computer suddenly shut down. When I tried to boot the computer back up I couldn't get anything but a black screen.

    Anyone know what's going on? I'm studying for a degree in CS and I have no other computer in my home so I'm going a little crazy.

    I've been running bios 1.13 fine, updated a while ago. Running Vista Ultimate 32, rest of the specs I think are in my sig. THANKSNDKSNSA!
     
  2. khanhfat

    khanhfat Notebook Deity

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    still dont' understand what u mean by air pocket on ur button.

    Do you have intel turbo memory inside? If you play around with the plastic panel on top of ur keyboard , u might accidentally move the intel turbo memory or something.

    Try to open the compartment under your laptop. Remove the ram stick and try to run with 1 stick only. Blank screen is usually ram won't boot . try with another stick if it's still blank.
     
  3. Rene S - Zepto

    Rene S - Zepto Company Representative

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    I think it wounds like you have accidently messed around with the wireset by pressing places in the stripcover that you normally shouldn't press. The wireset is the connection from the machine to the monitor.

    Does the machine appear to be booting normally, but no screen output? If so it might be the wireset.
    If the machine is just stuck at the beginning, and not booting and not screen, then it sounds like suggested by khanhfat, that it could be faulty RAM.
     
  4. zfactor

    zfactor Mastershake

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    ^^^ agreed there are some thin wires under there if you were pressing it out to hard you may have damaged something