Sager 5750 Problems; Battery, GPU, and beeps oh my

Hello everyone,

(Yes, I've been lurking; sorry )

I've been told that my sister's 5750 is having issues... she reported that it is rebooting constantly.

What she neglected to tell me was the following:

• LED's are flashing
• Audible beeps are present

Rather then stupidly try to sound smart and explain the symptoms I'm seeing, here's a quick lil' YouTube video I just posted... if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth 100 replies..

YouTube - IMG 004

Some of you are probably thinking that it is dusty; I unscrewed the 10-11 screw access panel and blasted the entire area with compressed air.

The HWMonitor temperatures were all normal... both cores were below 40C, although I didn't have a program that could monitor the GPU temperature.

Here's the kicker...


ready?...

If I pull the battery (power is only running on AC adapter power), there is no problems at all that I'm aware of; I ran the machine for 30+ minutes and no beeping/blinking madness.

What's the culprit? I have (not had, it still works!) a Sager 8790 that had the same problem; if memory serves me correctly, I think I applied Arctic Silver 5 to the Pentium 4 and that fixed the issue... to me, the hardware is telling me that something is overheating but the the lack of the battery = no problems is throwing me.

Any thoughts?

 

It may be the battery is dead or the computer is reading an out of spec voltage from the battery. Too bad the computer sounds like a van backing up, that's intolerable.

 

Trust me, that sound isn't quiet... my doggahs wanted to themselves it was so high-pitched.

I had a sneaking feeling that the battery was the issue; as the laptop has been sitting nice and quiet and ON for the better part of the past 3 hours running on AC power, albeit the back left corner is slanted...

I've downloaded PCMark11 for stress testing; I figure I put the laptop through it's paces, and if it doesn't overheat or freak out, I think it would be safe to say that the original battery was the problem.

Any other ideas/suggestions?

 

I have the exact same problem with my new x7200 right now I did managed to pinpoint the cause for mine though

For me, it's the fans. If the laptop fans runs full blast, after a few seconds it'll begin beeping with the LED lights flashing. After about 20seconds or so, it shuts down I have no idea how to fix this thing though ._.

Confirmed it by maxing out the fans with Fn+1

 

I think the keystroke for this ole' girl is Fn+F2... lemme fire up PcMark11 and turn the fans on full blast and annoy the wife fix my sister's laptop.

 

Update:

Ripped it open and squirted dabs of Arctic Silver 5 (hard to believe I bought this for my 8790 5 years ago) and replaced all the important parts.

Fired it up and opened Hardware Monitor immediately...

Without battery: 35-40C, 45C when pushed, fans kick on at 50C (normal)

With battery: Yellow LED icon, although Windows says battery is 100%
Is currently beeping with tempertares lower then above (30-32C not pushed)

If I have the Fn+F2/high speed fans spinning, it starts beeping/flashing within a few seconds. Naturally without the Fn+F2 increase in speed, it takes a bit longer.

While the beeping/flashing takes place, the fans kick on their medium speed; not the low hum of it being on, but not the Fn+F2 speed.

I think what I'm going to do from here is guess that the battery is the problem without a doubt; but just to be sure I'm going to run 3DMark06 on the machine and see what happens.

 

I fixed mine with Pman's help Apparently a fan connector wasn't connected or was knocked out during transit

In your case, it really might be battery though since removing the battery eliminates the problem ._.

 

Hi there,

Open the back and check your fan connectors first, as the beeping usually is disconnected fan issue. Then once you check all connectors, see if the actual fans work (all of them). Once you have gone through those motions, check for battery overheating, touch it and see if it feels warm. Put pc in lowest power mode, drop down screen resolution and see what happens. Then you can determine if it is a battery or general system overheat.