[Help] My W860CU seems dead... Help!

Hi everybody,

Let me explain myself... I juste came back by from a trip abroad and has a very bad surprise with my lappy.

Indeed, after a few time using it (maybe 2-3h), my Clevo W860CU just stopped working. It's as simple as that: I was writing something and POOF, it turned down instantly... Just as a desktop computer would have done if you had took the power cable of...

The only thing I can get from it now when it's plugged in are these LED's

- Power ORANGE + Battery ORANGE
=> I push the power button
1. Power GREEN + Battery ORANGE for 17 seconds
2. Power blinks GREEN rapidly 1 or 2 times then goes back to ORANGE. The Battery stays ORANGE

So... It seems I'm a little ed... Does somebody have some explaination/solution for me :'( ?

I would greatly appreciate any help...

Thanks a lot.

P.S. I'll be writing with the iPhone of a friend since now and I'm not a native english speaker, so please be comprehensive...

 

It's just a guess, but it sounds like based on the power lighting you mentioned that your power adapter or power port has died. The orange light for the battery means that you're currently running on battery mode and it's not fully charged.

What happens if you pull out the battery and attempt to run it directly from the AC adapter? Will it turn on at all?

 

I pulled put the battery and tried with AC only. This gave me the following:

- Power ORANGE
=> I push the power button
- Power GREEN for 17 seconds
- Power blinks GREEN 1 time
- Power ORANGE

So it seems to be exactly the same scheme than with battery inside...
Does that help ?

I know my battery is fried, it showed a wear level of like 50% in HWmonitor before the computer died so that can explain the orange battery led all the time

 

I'm in desperate need for help here... Anybody ?

 

If it's powering on without the battery, then it sounds more serious than a power problem. Are you even reaching the bios or POST? Try removing the RAM and booting with one stick, then adding another, etc. You could have faulty RAM. If that doesn't help, then the next possibilities would be faulty motherboard/CPU/GPU which are much harder if not impossible to test yourself.

 

I can't even reach the BIOS/Post, the little blue LED on the hinge that's supposed to light on when it's powered doesn't work too...

I already tried the RAM switch trick, without success...

So, there is absolutely NO way to know which component has burned ? :'(

It seems I'm screwed, because I bought this laptop from Kobalt, which has now ceased trading T_T

Can a CPU really die like this? And would a GPU failure prevent the laptop from even booting? Maybe motherboard then?...

 

Give Trilogic UK a call PM sent. They will open her up locate the problem and quote you before they even repair for nothing. It will cost about 100-150 pounds to repair. 50 pounds (25 each way) total postage with 1 day priority with 1000 pounds insurance.

 

I will see if I can deal with them but I'm located in Belgium so this is maybe not the better solution.

Does anyone have a guess about if this is a MB or GPU or CPU failure ?

This way I can maybe already order the necessary components so I get them when I come back to Belgium

(Because I forgot to mention that, but I'm in Brazil until mid-december atm...)

 

I understand this happened after a trip, perhaps you knocked something inside the notebook ...
Try to disassemble and reseat RAM, CPU, GPU, if you can ( have thermal paste and everything ), look for loose connectors on the motherboard, check that both fans are running ...

 

Yeah it was after a trip... But the netbook stayed @home =/

Anyway, I will open it and try to see what's going on when I come back to Belgium