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    Sager np9150 not turning on

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by dookiehead, Oct 5, 2014.

  1. dookiehead

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    Hi guys,

    I have a sager np9159 that I bought in January last year and the thing is totally bricked. It will not turn on at all! With the battery in or out and the adapter plugged in, the front power led panel will turn orange, indicating that its drawing power, but it won't turn on after pressing the power button. It been working all this time until today. Any ideas?
     
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    Try checking parts are not causing a short such as the ram/cpu/gpu remove them and see if powering up gets any further. Also check the power button cable is seated properly.
     
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    Will do mate! I was on the fence of a short or a fried mobo. I was leaning towards a fried mobo, but hopefully it isn't. Thanks for the speedy response.
     
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    what was the last thing you updated ie software, windows update, drivers, bios flash.
     
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  5. dookiehead

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    GPU driver about two months ago, and windows update. And an update on ths hardware issue, I've pulled everything out one at a time, no changes.
     
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    So with the cpu out it still gets no life when you press the power button.
     
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  7. dookiehead

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    Yes sir.


    Ten letters/words
     
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    Did you double check the power button cable? Did the contacts look ok on it?
     
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    I will try it again. It could possibly be the new PSU (prudent way 120v) I bought. Here's the whole story: I was watching a movie and the cable jostled out of the laptop (my battery was not in it at the time). The computer shut off and now it won't turn on at all. I thought that there was a bad contact with the PSU/laptop connection, but the power indicator lights told me otherwise.

    Semirelevant: I've been having problems with my battery holding a charge in the past, but that happened after I fixed the cord frays in my old PSU.
     
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    120w is a lot lower than the stock 180w brick. You don't want to be running it on a smaller brick.

    Last attempt is to remove the motherboard from the case. Take the cmos battery out, leave it over night. Put the cmos battery back in and see if it will power just the motherboard out the case. If it does you had static build up that needed to dissipate.
     
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    I will try that. However, if it doesn't work, I'm assuming that I'm SOL and have to send the expensive paperweight out for repairs/buy a new laptop. Is there any way to obtain an OEM mobo? I really don't want to ship the thing out back to xoticpc, I need the data for my exams (I don't have another working machine). Thanks for the advice.
     
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    Something that has worked before is taking out the battery and unplug the power. Press the power button around 10 times, and hold it down for 30secs. Plug it back in and put the battery back in and see if that starts it up.
     
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    I've discharged the capacitors and what not already over the course of a day. I'm not going to spend the time to test everything with a multimeter to find what's wrong in the case that something blew up (fried mobo). I've sent it out for repairs, considering that I need the machine ASAP. Thanks for the help though. The machine worked perfectly up until now (with exception of the PSU, which frayed/shorted like crazy). Thanks again.
     
    dookiehead, Oct 6, 2014
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