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    D901C defect

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ericodapinco, Jan 25, 2009.

  1. ericodapinco

    ericodapinco Notebook Enthusiast

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    Since September last year I own a D901C.
    Till two weeks ago It ran fine without problems.
    During playing COD WAW I noticed a brief burning smell and wanted to turn off my system with the hardware button bud it was too late and the system shut off by itself.
    The fans where on (100%) and I’ve never over clocked the system and was using the 179.28 nvidia driver.
    After a cool down period of a few minutes I’ve restarted the system to see what’s wrong and put the fanspeed directly to 100%.
    The GPU and CPU temp’s where normal and the hard drives were working properly.
    Then the system shut down and never restarted again.
    The led on the power-brick was on bud the power and battery led’s on the notebook where off.
    I was thinking there was something wrong with the power supply in the notebook and removed the battery which was unusually warm/hot.
    Contacted my dealer and send it for repair… got it back a few days later and all seems to work fine again.
    They changed the motherboard and uploaded it with the latest bios.
    The cause was some fried components on the motherboard… they didn’t tell me witch components bud I ask them tomorrow when my system goes back for repair again.

    Today after a few days off only internet browsing mailing and some other simple comp. app’s. my system won’t start up again.
    Power supply seems to be okay, all the led’s and lights look fine only a black screen and only a brief hard disk activity at the beginning when after I push the power button… no bios-screen… nothing.
    Usb devices go on for a second and off for a few seconds... then this sequence repeats this a few times.
    The function buttons for the fans and wireless work, only the Bluetooth button doesn’t seem to work… bleutooth is on according to the led.
    I’ve noticed that the F11 < > Del buttons and the – and + button have some double click feel since I’ve got my system back from repair.
    Tried to start the system with and without battery… nothing seems to work.

    The questions:
    Can it be some BIOS software problem cause it’s got an update even if it ran fine for a few days?
    And are there some other things I’ve could try to filter out the problem?
    Thanks in advance :)
     
    ericodapinco, Jan 25, 2009
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  2. AlanP

    AlanP Notebook Evangelist

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    I doubt the bios change is causing the issues. When they changed the Motherboard, it probably required the change in bios, as it was a newer release board.

    You should be able to request a little more information about the repairs that they have done to date. Guessing the cause would be a really difficult exercise... Good luck with it.
     
    AlanP, Jan 27, 2009
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