Dead Cyberpower Laptop

Hi all. First off, thanks for taking the time to read this post. I have a laptop my friend bought from cyberpower a few years ago. I talked to cyberpower and they said the entire thing was manufactured by AOpen.

It will not start up any more than just a blue LED and an all black screen. I have tried reseating the ram, removing the hard drive, removing the batter pack, and booting with hiren's boot cd.

About one in every ten times I try to start it I can get to the bios screen but three times now it has frozen on me when in the bios.

A couple times I managed to get all the way into xp but then it went all black after about 20 minutes.

Any ideas on what this sounds like is greatly appreciated. Although I would like an opinion on just those symptoms, I feel the need to share the rest of the story as well. My friend said that he turned it off one night and the next day it didn't turn back on any more than just the led. Then, on the way over to give it to me, he dropped it and cracked the screen.

I don't think the cracked screen has anything to do with it but I figured I would tell the whole story just in case I am wrong.

Oh, and I just tried a few more times to boot with the cd and the hard drive and I got to the point where it asks me which test I want to perform on the hard drive. I tried the hitachi test and the seagate test and they both froze before it could do anything. The seagate one at least got to the point where it was the seagate desktop screen then froze immediately. Damn.

Anyway, thanks for reading this incredibly long post and I look forward to hearing your replies. Tia.

 

It looks like you have a dead screen and a broken motherboard.
The motherboard seems like it is just holding onto life, which is commonly the result of overheating.

K-TRON

 

It may very well be the motherboard, but it wouldn't hurt to try updating the BIOS if possible.

 

Thanks for the replies. Someone on another forum said it sounded like a bad hard drive but I think I'm leaning towards your opinions of a bad mobo - reason being is that even with no hdd plugged in it still froze when in the bios.

So now I guess I have a couple options (granted we are right about it being the mobo). Sell the parts of a 4 year old laptop (1gb ram, 40gb hdd, 1.7 ghz celeron cpu ...) or buy a new mobo (if i can find one) and a new screen and take my chances rebuilding.

I think I'm going to check out AOpen and see if I can maybe buy a barebones laptop that just has a mobo, screen, and case. That would probably be the ideal way to go.

Any other thoughts? If anyone has an urge to comment please feel free. I'll let you know how I make out. Thanks again.

 

A new screen is going to cost you around $200-$300.
A new motherboard is going to be around $180-400 depending on the model.

Your best bet is to sell the components and get maybe $100 to put into a new computer.

The celeron will probably sell for like $20
The harddrive will sell for like $35
The 1Gb of ram will sell for like $50 if its DDR or about $8 if its DDR2
You can probably sell the miscellaneous other things in the system, like cd drive, battery and such.

Good luck selling stuff or finding replacement parts.

K-TRON

 

looks like you have a crappy cyberpower built computer. how about never buying one again!

I bought a cyberpower PC once... was the ****tiest crap anybody could buy... I built my very first desktop that had better specs, came out cheaper and I (A FIRST TIMER) built a better quality computer than Cyberpower could.

Don't buy from them...why the hell would anybody want to? I only bought there because I was oblivious to the computer world until AFTER i learned my mistake... SO LEARN NOW. DON'T BUY THEM. Build yourself or buy other companies.

sorry to burst your bubble.

 

Sell it on Ebay