Gateway notebook problem

Have you tried holding the power button down until it shuts down completely, then unplug the AC adapter, remove the battery, put it all back together then try powering back up?

Defective Videocard onboard..

dont they all , eventually. all do a fact. but why ? so leave that old battery out, run on AC for ever if you wish and for SURE TESTING. they love to fail and overload the PC. so with AC good power pack no main battery does the power turn on? y/n does the fan run (above is yes) does the cd tray eject does the bios message show on the screen, it must "hit f10 to setup?" means BIOS page. does it, or is the screen back totally no text EVER. even hitting the F10 key or the key it told you to hit for 10 years. that is called fan running and not packed up. the black screen of *****. we have no idea what YOU can do, your skills your tools, ? how can any person know that. if not black screens of deathh then say so and say what you saw fully this time. http://pcdied.com/black-screen.html its a nx9020 (2004, 13 long hard years old.!!!) not 9020, the nx matters . big time top black screens fan ok are? COIN cell dead. CMOS RTC battery coin main battery shorted, nah its parked on shelf. CCFL lamps it PC are dead. as all are this old do the flash light trick yet, fan blowing.

remove all attached devices like printers or flash drives. remove battery and power on using ac adapter only. if it still wont work, try another good ac adapter. make sure ac adapter light is on. if it still shows the power light on and nothing else, replace motherboard.

I have the very same problem, the Drive light turns red, the screen is "black" and the battery charging light indicator on the front is off. No differance if I'm traying to power up on battery or AC-adapter.

Before this problem appeared I had problems where the laptop was powering off, with no warning, and I had to restart it. This happened several times and was going on for about a week before it died totally. Can it be the CMOS battery on the mother board? Anyone having clue what the problem could be?

1. take out the memory
2. turn on again without memory (you should hear long beep sound) and turn it off again
   
3. clean memory using eraser (better if you have spare memory to replace it)
4. now try again
   
5. if not working, checks whether the work properly? and clean the fan from dust. and try to switch it on again.

I look forward to hearing further.

The backlight inverter board may be bad, or worst case will be bad lamp. You should look to see if the cable comes off the inverter board first. You may learn maore here:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/category/5-gateway-laptops/
Please post back what you find.

Gateway was working good went upstairs came back NOTHING BLACK SCREEN....

My gateway screen was constently black every time I powered on nothing no bios, nostart up no warning..The board has indicating lights to follow the start up power light on, battery light on, then the disk drive....but thats it normaly the harddrive reader light comes on but nothing.... So detached every component and tested individually..... come to find out one of my 2 ram slots is damaged not the chips...this could be your problem..try

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Faulty Battery.
Get a new one.


If that is not the problem check the ram.

sounds like ,audio card went died or mite be screen has shorted out try hooking it up an orther screen and see if it boots up if so either viedo screen card or screen it self