IFL90 only powers on for about 60 seconds

^ I just got it today and put everything together, but it will only stay on for about 60-90 seconds...Not sure what to do, checked everything and it is plugged in/in place/ screwed in. Any help would be wonderful...

-TNK

 

Do you reside in north america? they have 2 cable 1 is 120v and the other one is 240v. Use 120V plug. And does laptop power up and boot into windows?

 

Lol, yeah I am using the correct power adapter, and no it won't boot into windows I cant install it. Now it only boots for about 15-20 seconds, but when in the bios, it will stay on forever...

-TNK

 

So the laptop comes with no OS Pre-loaded?

 

yup that is correct

 

Oh now I know what the problem is
The power off problem because there is no boot-up sector present so computer get stuck after post-bios sequence, then shut itself down after displaying some message.

On the bios screen press F12, and put your XP/Vista cd/dvd in cd/dvd rom drive, then select "boot from cd/dvd rom drive" from the menu. You shoud be able to install OS just follow the instruction there.

EDIT: Or on bios screen press F2, enter bios and find the section where you can put boot device in order. Put cd/dvd rom drive in 1st follow by hard drive, save and quit.

 

Didn't work... :/ I hate my life

 

What windows disk you have?

 

XP home, I really do not know what it could be, we looked and it doesnt seem to be anything inside shorting the mobo, the only thing we can think of is the ram but i dont believe there is a way to test it when it will only boot for 20-90 seconds....unless in BIOS.... so yeah....any ideas?

 

Does laptop display any message before it shuts down? Does it get past bios screen? Does it make any beep sound? Does hard drive appear in bios?

 

It says like media check failed or something like that over and over, it gets passed the bios screen into that... Doesnt make a sound. Hard drive does appear in bios.

 

Then it should definitely be there's no boot-up sector present like I mentioned earlier. Power down your laptop first, wait few seconds and power it up again, put windows xp home disk in cd/dvd rom drive and on bios screen press F2, move cd/dvd rom drive up to first place and followed by hard drive, save and quit.
Btw turn off AHCI in bios too.

 

alright we figured out the problem we didnt see the retarded plastic thing on the CPU that caused some of the compound to slighlty melt away, took off the plastica nd applied some compound. it works...but now we cant install windows cuz of the cant find hdd error, i have windows xp home sp2

 

alright fixed that, AHCI was on after we thought we turned it off, but now when we try to install xp it will reboot right when we click to format the hdd

 

Can you describe little bit more when you try to format hard drive?
So you've come to a raw hard drive needed to be formatted, and you chose what type of format? And at what point that laptop will reboot?

 

well i think i have windows installed. will update brb