any loose cables possibly?

my ifl92 will power on but shuts off after about 3-5 seconds. since the problems started i've made it to os twice and it shut down after about 5 minutes. since then though i haven't even been able to get into bios. any internal solutions/suggestions before i have to send it off. i've done soft power reset, J5 jumper reset, tried all combinations of original ram/harddrive and power and/or battery and still no boot.

 

Is this the result of OC?

 

no OC'ing. only "mods" are 2 sticks of ram i had and a 160 gig hd. i put in original stick of ram and original 80 gig hd and still no luck. laptop has idle/light usage temps of ~40c cpu, ~72-75c gpu, and ~35 hd. the desk i use my laptop on has a small 4 inch fan blowing on the rear left side, and that dropped my cpu temps ~3-5c and my gpu down to about ~65c, no effect on hd. heat, moisture and drops are not an issue. i don't drink, eat or poop with/anywhere close to my laptop and nobody has used it but me. i do live in an apt, so if some apt employee "tried" to use my laptop, their fingerprints would have to match one of the 6 i have registered.

 

Is this a legitimate SRR?

 

what's srr?

 

Santa Rosa Refresh, the SR modified to make the first JFL92.

 

99.9 percent sure. it's the sager 2092 from xoticpc.com. i have bios 1.16 factory installed. i know that the srr's still have ifl90 on them. i'm gonna email justin later and see if i can get any more info out of him.

 

Yeah, do that and let me know, I wonder how many of those SRR based on FL90 modified are out there.

 

I wonder if your motherboard hasn't failed because it doesn't boot anymore....

 

It's for sure CPU temp, this will activate the power fail safe and it will go off.
I teste my New Machine's penryn CPU in my older IFL90 and it didn't work.
Start but goes off after several seconds.

 

Did you install the thermal sensor?

 

well, i sent it off. it's in sager's hands now. or will be sometime next week. thanks for the replies. i think the motherboard pooped on me.

 

I hope you took pictures

 

I wonder if I could send mine to compal to get the ic installed... But beside the reduced heat and smaller c4d rendering time I don't really think I would get any benefits from penryn... I wish nvidia would release the 9600m already.

 

I'm waiting for a higher speed Penryn and I will modify my laptop.

 

Like what? The x9000 is already blazing fast....

 

How fast, over 3GHz?

 

Well the new Penryn CPU with the FSB1066 will not work with the older Penryn and the Santa Rosa.
This CPU will only work with the new Montevina Chipset.

 

anybody know how to get an update from sager about diagnosis process? my laptop went out monday 3day shipping so it should be in their hands now. i was wondering if there was a number to call or something. Justin?

 

Are you still waiting?

I sent mine to Hypersonic-pc and is already 6 weeks!!!! The most funny thing is that they said that there was nothing wrong and that they just need to solder the video card (which I don't understand) to the mobo!!!!!

 

mwahahahah. i just got my laptop back. everything seems to be fine. i'm fixing to put my harddrive and ram in it. brb in a few minutes. buh bye.

 

Congratulations, have fun!