Non Booting CF-52

Help! I have a brand new CF-52FKN10AM That will not boot ...most of the time.
If it is plugged in the battery charging light comes on but about five seconds after hitting the power button the light goes out and you hear the faint click like it is powering off.
Now the strange part is that sometimes after some hours I can hit the button and it boots right up with no problem and will do it several times before it goes back to not turning on. I have done all the usually things to test the ram, re- seat, different,none. Have changed out battery and Hard Drive all to no avail. I tell ya guys and girls this one has me stumped and I really don't just want to part out a zero hour machine. Any help will be appreciated,Travis

 

If it is really new, there should be warranty
Otherwise it sounds like an bad/dead capacitor. U have to dig inside to have a close look on the board. Do u have experiences in electronic?

 

Well I suppose it's not under warranty since I bought it from a reseller and no I don't know any thing about board level repair other than the interface cards ie battery wifi cards etc...what would I be looking for and could I repair it?

 

Try a different charger just for fun, try the self diagnostics, i.e. set bios to defaults then Control + F7 at the Panasonic screen.
Not a magic bullet but it might tell you something useful.
Likely going to need component-level repair.

 

Do you have a battery for it? Is the battery installed? A shorted battery can cause problems. Does it have any RAM installed?
Pull off ALL extras, WLAN, WLAN, Modem, RAM, ALL drives. Then re try by installing 1 RAM first.
It may not be a new machine. Some people have figured how to reset the hours. I believe this considering how many 0 hour machines show up on fleabay.

 

bad capacitor:
https://encrypted.google.com/search...rceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

 

@ onirakkiss

Hi! Interesting and surprising that the Wiki article from your link suggests 1999 as the start of the electrolytic capacitor plague.
I was replacing huge numbers of electrolytics in camcorders in the early 90's. Never was aware of any industrial espionage, badly formulated electrolytes or any other explanation - but it was clear that failure rates were extraordinarily high.
I always just assumed the reason was the small physical size of the capacitors they had to use in order to shrink the camcorders generation by generation. Full sets of electrolytics were sold as "repair kits" - I think I remember a high-end Sony having 128 of the little buggers!
Haven't seen anything like that level of failures in laptops but then I don't repair them professionally.

 

I'm in electronic since I'm 6y. U'r right, also in the 70s I got capacitors, which where a problem for my tube- and later transistor- flashing- circuits, because the frequency and the voltage was not that accurate as needed I have some of this really old parts in my laboratory (or handicraft room?).
The problem for the Elkos was a not normal temperature, to much voltage, high drain currents....and I think especially in a Toughbook, all this things can happen
But maybe it is a different problem ....