20 Most Recent Medion md40298 Notebook - Page 9 Questions & Answers

probably the mother board.if you boot from the CD will it boot?

Perhaps your monitor is faulty. You should check it out at a repair store. Also, if you have a VGA connector for an external monitor, try with that. If the lines are gone, that means your monitor is faulty.

Hi,
A common problem is overheating with these laptops. They then shut themselves donw to prevent damage. It may have dust buildup inside. This needs to then be cleaned by a professional. Alternately, whe may be putting the laptop on her lap and blocking the ventalation ( even though they cal them laptops, the manufacturers quite often put the main vent on the bottom of the machine, thus causing a problem when clothing blocks the vent).
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what is the make/model of your laptop? what OS are you running on this system?

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Not sure what type of laptop you have, but look at the function keys on your keyboard (F1, F2, F3). Normally one of those will have an Antennae looking icon, if so then press your fn key and that key and it should turn it on.

Most desktop computers are not by default wifi capable (barring a few models that include an internal USB wifi adapter in the case.) If you have added wifi to the unit by installing an internal PCI-Card Wifi adapter or plugged in a USB Wifi adapter into one of your USB ports then that capability will be added. As far as a Keyboard command to activate the Wifi, that is usually dependent on the Computer and/or the brand and model of the adapter installed. What brand of Computer and model are you having problems with? If the Wifi was added after it was purchased, what brand and model of adapter are you using?

theres a program called spotmau ;you can download a free version off net( google "spotmau")first off download it then unzip contents and create a boot disk and copy contents to disk.( there is a instruction file included in the zip of how to do) then turn off pc making sure cd is still in tray.reboot.system will startup with spotmau and a menu page will come up.there is a section to remove all passwords choose it.when done remove disk and reboot to windows.The other way is to partially strip pc to remove rtc battery for a minute or so then replace battery and put pc back together.

have you recently installed new os or been into the bios for whatever reason.
quite often when restart from bios mousepad doesnt work;usually comes back on after shut down and reboot(not restart)
if you think drivers gone download driver from hp.com

First try to connect a monitor to the laptop and see how it works with that.
If it's still nothing than try to get the hard drive out, last time I had same thing with a HP laptop, HDD was dead and it didn't even turn on till it was in it.
You can get the HDD out by removing the small panel at the back of the laptop.
Either way you'll know what's wrong if any of my ideas going to give you some progress.
Or if it's still a no go than maybe another expert can give you some good ideas.

Take it back to the shop and test battery and AC adapter, one of them is probably defective.

yep, right here:

http://www.medion.co.uk/service/?drivers_updates/drivers_updates.htm

/Teis -> dont forget to vote "FixYa :-)

Here is a corporate number I found off their website:

Chicagoland
Medion USA, Inc.
1130 Lake Cook Rd, Ste 340
Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089

Customer Care: 866-633-4660

Its not good idea to but your computer on fire, but i hope you didn't use real fire ;)
Sounds like some of your buttons are stuck on keyboard and need some cleaning.

If your audio driver isn't correctly installed, then you can download latest audio driver here www1.medion.de/downloads/?lang=uk

1. Reboot your computer.
2. Press F8 repeatedly on the very first screen you'll see after turning the system on.
3. Select "Repair Your Computer"
4. Hit Next on the keyboard layout
5. Select your account name and enter password
6. On the Recovery Options, select Startup Repair

If that doesn't resolve the issue:
Repeat steps 1-5 above. Then select System Restore instead. Restore the system back to a date where you think it was working fine.

The easiest way to uninstall programs is by going to Control Panel, if using XP then go to add/remove programs if using Vista then go to programs and features.

If you cannopt open photo gallery then I suggest you insert your windows CD and repair your version of windows. All of your other files will remain intact, windows will find and replace corrupt system files and replace missing files.

I hope this helps

i looked for a solution:By holding down the function key and pressing the F1 button (the one with the triangle with a line drawn through it 'wifi symbol' ) it turns the wifi card on and you are able to refresh the network list and see the networks available to you.
i hope it helps...

Have you actually tried another adapter already??

It sounds like something has burned out on your mainboard. However depending on the model it may have a removable power board. You may have to find someone that can trace down the power circuitry of the system with a meter.

You mentioned this is not the original adapter- There is definitely a chance that your adapter caused this problem. I never take a chance on a higher or lower amperage AC adapter with a laptop, since it stresses the power circuitry of the machine. Even if you can get it going again, i would strongly recommend getting a closer to spec adapter.

What you will need to do to clear a bios or power on password is 1- transfer ownership of the machine at Dell's support site
(link #1), then 2- contact Dell support by telephone for the master code (link #2). You will need the machine or configuration id, the number at the bottom of the initial white screen.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/change_order/tag_transfer?~ck=ln&c=us&l=en&lnki=0&s=gen

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=E21A18454B4A6550E030A68F27286358&doclang=en&cs=