My hp 530 laptop has suddenly stopped powering up in the last 24 hours. When plugged in and even when not plugged in an amber light flashes approx 5 times in the front of the laptop when the power button is pressed and then nothing happens.

The amber color of the light is an indication of a motherboard malfunction ..and this is the reason it does not work ...It can be something related with a poor contact or a CPU issue ..but usually when this light is on ...it means you need a motherboard for it cause the one in discussion is dead ..

The System / Motherboard has faulty Power Circuit. Contact HP and arrange a repair. If under warranty won't cost anything.

The Yellow Light of Death, anyway turn on Your PC, as it starts You will here some beeps especially on a Dells. Count the beeps , there will be a slight pause so it will beep once then pause then beep again. Count the beeps and that will be Your code. Go to Dell Support site and look up code. Most of the time a Yellow amber light means that there is trouble with Your Motherboard but thats not to say its the Motherboard itself, it could have possibly burned out Your RAM, Processor, Heat fan, even the power supply itself. So look up the code and at least You'll have a better chance of finding the solution, Good Luck

Might have something to do with your power settings. Check them out and get back to me.

Hi there.
The battery could be faulty, power off the laptop, take out the AC power and the battery wait 2 minutes and put the battery back in, turn the laptop an and look at the indicator LED to see if its changed, if it has plug in AC power and see if its the same.

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just check ur lcd display cable and try to clean and c it it will cme

hi, try removing the batt press and hold the power down for 1 minute, dont replace battery yet, plug in charger, boot up then shut down. replace battery and boot.
if this fails you could also try changing your power settings in control panel. change to minimal power managment.
remove the adapter while laptop is on and allow to completly drain(untill it switches off)
then try reboot.

Clarification of your battery/power led indicator:

Solid amber:
Battery is charging at 0% - 89% capacity

Solid green:
Battery is charging at 90% - 99%

Blinking amber:
Battery is low

Led is of:
Battery is charged

hey

i had this same problem with my hp 530
i dont know if this is what you are meant to do but if u turn off the laptop and take the battery out and put it back in again the problem should stop

it may happen again a few weeks afterwards but just do the same thing

The DC power jack on the laptop may be worn out and needs to be replaced. Does it begin charging if you wiggle the power jack a bit?