CF-29 Wont turn on just status light

I just received my cf-29 off ebay. The laptop is suppose to be fully working but it does nothing. I charged the battery for 4 hours and tried to turn it on and nothing happened except the status light comes on and the "Power Status of the multimedia Pocket" flashes on for a split second . Ive tried a lot and got nowhere. I bought it off of ebay and he said it works great. I tried emailing the jerk with no answer and I only have a 3 day return policy. Any help would be great

 

Remove the optical drive/caddy, add on ram , hard drive and see if it will go into the bios screen


Alex

 

There is a lot of "CF-29 listed as Fully working but have no HDD, no DVD No battery, No cord, no OS, no COA and no ram. Verify you have at least a hard drive.

 

Did you tried that with the power supply plugged in ?

 

Have you tried holding the the on switch on for about 2-3 seconds ? That's the way I have start mine.

 

Try reseating the mamories...

 

Same here.

 

Maybe the bios has a bad flash or is totally erased.
Im guessing if the bios is corrupt it will not boot but it will light up the led

 

Well... We won't know anything until he posts back....

 

2-3 seconds? Really? It should only take .25 - .5 seconds.... I've never had one take longer...

 

Well really not that long......but can't hurt. . On mine if I flick the on button fast nothing but if I flick it and hold it a second it starts. But you are right Rick

 

Sorry it took so long to post. Ended up being the add on ram. Took out the ram stick and started right up. Thank you guys. Not very happy with the seller from ebay. Sold it to me telling me its in excellent shape and its really messed up. Plus wont call me back.

 

Your CF-29NAQGZBM is a Mk5 unit and as such requires 200-pin DDR2 SODIMM to upgrade the RAM.

Since your unit has 512MB Base RAM you are "maxed out" with the addition of a 1GB memory module.

We like the RAM from Crucial Technologies (a Micron Technology company).

 

Thank you very much!