Clevo P650se won't boot

Im a college student and need this laptop to get anything done. So lately my laptop won't boot, and when I mean it won't boot I mean literally doesn't even get past the bios splash screen. All the lights come on and the fans spin up but the screen will stay black. The only way I have been able to get it to boot is by just cycling the power and crossing my fingers. I did a visual inspection of everything and it all looks good. I'm sitting here hoping I can get it to boot. I'm gonna reset the cmos and see if that does anything.


EDIT: cmos did nothing, I just pulled each ram and tried to restart and that did nothing.

EDIT 2: I'm pretty sure it's the motherboard.


IF ANYONE CAN HELP I GREATLY APPRECIATE IT

 

I had a similar issue at one point and it turned out my one of my drives got corrupted and was causing it not to boot properly. Try taking out the drives from your machine and see if you can get into the BIOS.

 

It's a fair prognosis to say it could be the motherboard. We've seen drives cause hangups in POST as well; @ShadowedIce makes a good suggestion.

If you can get into the BIOS at all, change from 'DISCRETE' to 'MSHYBRID', or vice versa (found in Advanced -> Advanced Chipset Control).

 

so I decided to give booting it another shot today, it did the same thing the first two times then on the third start it booted up perfectly and is running great right now. at this point I'm to scared to turn it off in fear of it not booting again. Any idea what these symptoms might point to?

 

It being intermittent doesn't make it any easier to guess at. You'd have to remove one suspect thing at a time (maybe not the motherboard, though... unless you happen to have a good one laying around) and run a stability test to narrow it down.

 

Try running with a single memory stick when it happens. Try swapping that stick for the other one too.

 

I've tried changing the sticks and it doesn't make any difference. it's currently running so I think I'm just gonna not turn it off and wait till the summer when I won't need it like I would during the school year.

 

If it is working, and you can just keep putting it to sleep instead of shutting down, hopefully you can get through the semester. I'd really focus on keeping everything backed up, as you don't want it to get worse and lose any of your files for classes. Been down that road before, it's not fun.