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    Help! Black screen on m860tu

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Lapatata, Mar 5, 2011.

  1. Lapatata

    Lapatata Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi
    Hope someone can help me locate the error.

    I had my m860tu in for repair for a broken charger connector, where it seemed a had broken the motherboard due to using an unoriginal charger. Darn, but i got a new motherboard and waited three months for a gfx bezel as the old one didn't fit on the new mb, but all that's another story.

    I finally got my beloved m860tu back yesterday and started getting it up to date having lost 3 valuable months of computer power (sitting with a netbook now). After about 2 hours of installing and uninstalling, booting up a game the screen suddenly goes completely black and the hd stops spinning and the hd-LED turns off.
    I tried a power off - on where all the right LEDs turns on, also the hd one for a short while, but i can't hear the drive spin. All the other mechanics seems to start, fans etc. I don't get any bios screen or anything, just completely black screen.

    So, am I having a dead hd, or is the problem more severe? I've tried taking the hd in and out, the ram in and out, disconnecting power and battery holding the power button in to decharge every condensor, I've tried connecting to my tv via. HDMI (not vga as i have no external screen available.)

    That's what I've tried, I want to buy a replacement hd, but before i do that i would like to make sure there's not other problems, can you help?
     
    Lapatata, Mar 5, 2011
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  2. kaltmond

    kaltmond Clepple

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    Sounds like MB failure.
     
    kaltmond, Mar 5, 2011
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  3. Lapatata

    Lapatata Notebook Enthusiast

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    -_-

    If that's true the new MB's life span is approx 2 hours... darn. Is there no chance it's only the hd?
     
    Lapatata, Mar 5, 2011
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    If it was just the HD, you would see the BIOS POST, then say no HDD found.
     
    theriko, Mar 5, 2011
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