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Gateway MA7 black screen, no bios




By evansjwc on May 24, 2009

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I have a 3-4yr old gateway MA7 Model MT6821. No problems until today. I get a full black screen with nothing deep inside (So not a lamp issue). I have plugged a seperate screen into the laptop, and still no info is shown when I press Fn+F4. When I boot up, the fan runs but nothing more. I am left with a steady blue light on the front of the laptop and power light is blue. I have tried to boot from a windows CD, but nothing comes up and no different sounds excpet the loading of the CD and some spinning, but no full loading. I removed HD and RAM cards, still boots to no BIOS. just black screen. I can only assume motherboard failure. Any other ideas?
Comments:

May 25, 2009

- Thanks, but even with no hard drive and no RAM, I should get the start up BIOS, that is direct from the motherboard processor.

May 28, 2009

- ok, I swapped out the hard drive, and still the same issue. Any other ideas? Time to throw it away!

Solution #1

posted on May 24, 2009
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robnok

Rank: Wiz 
Rating: 79%, 112 votes
I would steer towards the hard drive. can either wipe it,reformat ie and put windows back on it or get a new one. Try E-bay for one.
Comments:

May 25, 2009

- I'm telling You it's the hard drive because the same thing happened to Me on one My dell 4550. I replaced the hard drive and it worked just fine. Everybody usually assumes it is the motherboard but the hard drive can be just as bad.
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Solution #2

posted on May 24, 2009
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benwabnick

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Take out the hard drive, take out the dvd drive. If you still don't get any video, try another stick of RAM and if that still doesn't work, then the motherboard is definitely bad at that point.



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