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    HEL80 Display help...

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by reverend_black, Nov 1, 2006.

  1. reverend_black

    reverend_black Newbie

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    Hi

    After reading all the rave reviews of the HEL80, i decided its the laptop for me.. So I bought a HEL80 whitebook through NCIX here in canada, 2 1 gb strips of OCZ PC2-4200 DDR2-533 ram, a T7200 chip, 80 gb 7200 rpm sata hard drive, and a pioneer K16 dual layer dvd burner. Got all the parts home, put em all together, switched it on.....

    and the display does nothing. not a **** thing, doesn't even light up... The led's on the front of the notebook light up, dvd rom spins up, fan spins up, no display. at all.

    I'm totally at a loss as to what to do about this... If someone could please help me, i would be forever in your debt...
     
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  2. Brianj

    Brianj Notebook Geek

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    Bios may not support the core 2 duo chip. There's a thread on it here somewhere...
     
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    Brianj Notebook Geek

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    l33t_c0w Notebook Deity

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    If you've got a bios that supports core 2 duo, then I'd triple check your connections.

    edit: removed mention of how many wires I saw in various places, because upon a little closer inspection, I've concluded they're wrong and I don't feel up to completely disassembling my laptop right now. :D
     
    l33t_c0w, Nov 1, 2006
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