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Posted on Aug 07, 2009

Gateway CX2600 does not turn on

But my case is that the power supply can charge the battery. Other than that, no other light is on.
This tablet worked perfectly without any problem until yesterday. I received a message in response to my wanted post on craigslist. I found this message in SPAM folder and I opened it. The guy says: Please click the link to see the picture of the item so that you can find if it is what you want. I did but nothing coming out and there was no picture. Since then, the computer became slower and frozen frequently. I then realized that this guy must have sent the same message to many people and it might contain virus. I tried virus scan several times but always stopped at 60% completion. I also tried system restoration, failed too. After I turned it off, it has refused to turn on at all.
I tried to remove the battery, remove the memory chips, replace the CMOS battery, nothing worked.
Please help!

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May be its lustred try to borrow another charger like your charger and if nothing happen buy new charger In spam the anti virus in your computer is always updated and if not always updated may harm your files and is not term in your charger

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