My laptop does not start

Hello, my problem is that i am pressing the start button and my laptop does not start. When i am pressing the button, the battery indicator flashes for about 8 times, but the laptop does not respond. I also tried to plug-in the AC adaptor, but the battery indicator remains off, and the laptop does not start as well. Any ideas which might be the problem..?

1 Answer

John Anderson

Level 2:

An expert who has achieved level 2 by getting 100 points

All-Star:

An expert that got 10 achievements.

MVP:

An expert that got 5 achievements.

Sergeant:

An expert that has over 500 points.
Expert
310 Answers

Have you tried removing the battery and trying the laptop directly off the mains, another thing thats worth trying is remove 1 of the memory modules if you have 2 and put 1 in at a time.

Posted on Feb 26, 2007

Add Your Answer

Upload

Upload an image from your computer

Uploading: 0%

my-video-file.mp4

Complete. Click "Add" to insert your video. Add

Loading...

Include an image. It's worth a thousand words.

prev next

Related Questions:

0helpful

1answer

I need the mac number of my samsung NP-900X3A laptop in order to trace it.

hello,

assumed you are running a windows operating system on it (u didn't told here) then :
press start button -> start typing cmd -> wait few seconds till your system found cmd, run it -> type into cmd : <ipconfig /all> (without <>, remark the space before slash) and press enter.
the output now will list u all network adapters, including their mac-addresses.

regards nayss

Read full answer

Oct 14, 2013 • Samsung 900x Ultraportable Laptop...

0helpful

1answer

Sony VGN-FW41E not starting...

Power supply in the laptop may have went bad

Read full answer

Aug 27, 2012 • Computers & Internet

0helpful

1answer

Hello,my laptop didn't get started it is charging

How do you know it is charging? What does it do when you hit the power button?

When you plug in the power cord is there any lightswhatsoever on the laptop, where the plug goes in or on the AC Adapter of thepower cord?

When you press the power button do you hear fans running, hard drive spinning,lights on the computer, hear any beeps or lights constantly blinking, hear theDvD/CD drive click and the light on the drawer of the DvD/CD turn on for asecond or two? If so the laptop is trying to boot or may have booted, butthe screen is not showing for some reason.

Beep tones and blinking lights tells the technicians what is going on with thelaptop and why it is not booting. Most times it's a motherboard issuewhen you hear beeps or blinking lights continuous.

Maybe your power cord is bad if you don't get anything to happen whatsoeverwhen you press the power button. And if that's true maybe you wasoperating off the battery the last time you had it on and since the power cordis bad, it was not charging the battery so the battery is drained and the powercord is bad.

Maybe you have a Static Charge Buildup. Remove the Power Cord, Remove theBattery, then Press and Hold the power button for 30seconds. After 30 seconds plug the power cord back in (leave the batteryout) and hit the power button to see if it boots. If it does, you can putthe battery back in and let it charge.

Read full answer

Mar 30, 2012 • Computers & Internet

0helpful

2answers

I press the switch on button to activate laptop and it just switches back off

Please check whether the laptop power button may be in the pressed mode.. please release the key. If the key is not released after you pressed the power button, the laptop will power off.
Clean the power on button.
Hope this works..

Read full answer

Jul 11, 2011 • Fujitsu AMILO PC Laptops

2helpful

2answers

My laptop has frozen,tried the con/alt/del & the power off but nothing happens

Press and hold down the power button until the laptop shuts off.

Read full answer

Dec 29, 2010 • Compaq Presario CQ60-220US PC Laptop

0helpful

3answers

My laptop was working fine, I went to bios settings by pressing F10. I selected one of the items in security settings and pressed enter, now there is no display. If i press power button the led blinks...

Hi

On startup can you not go back and reverse what you have done in bios to see if that corrects the problem

so press power button and straight away press F10 or delete a few times as it is starting up and hopefully put the setting back in bios save it which i think is F10 and exit or restart

good luck

Read full answer

Nov 19, 2010 • HP Compaq nx6125 Notebook

0helpful

1answer

Hello guys!! I have one of the old Dell 1525s, and my HP laptop just died, so I've had to resort to (ugh!) using it!! HOW ON EARTH IS IT POSSIBLE TO RESTART THE DELL 1525 JUST AS IF I JUST BOUGHT IT FROM...

hi

if you havent reinstalled windows on that computer yet try this:

for XP
press CTRL + F12 after pressing the power button to restore sys to dell factory image.

for vista
press F8 after pressing the power button to go into advanced boot options
press enter on repair my computer
press enter on pc restore.
it sets your computer back to factory image.

Read full answer

Nov 10, 2010 • Dell Computers & Internet

1helpful

1answer

How to turn on wireless capability on a compaq cq60

Hello,

the wireless button is usually at the side of the power button.

If you don't find it there, check the side(s) of the laptop.

Or you can click your computer start menu, under search, type wireless and press enter. You can enable your wireless from there.

Take care.

Read full answer

Apr 15, 2010 • Compaq Computers & Internet

0helpful

1answer

When i shutdown my macbook air, it starts up automatically and wont shutdown until i pressed power button, what shall i do to shutdown without pressing power button? Pls HELP!!!

hello,
there should be a program that does not quit. Can you tell what software is the last to quit before this occurs?

Read full answer

Jul 28, 2009 • Apple MacBook Air

0helpful

1answer

Keyboard start up mode wrong

Hello,

When you mean numeric mode, you press letters and numbers comes out?

If yes just look for the "FN" button it should be near the window, ctrl, alt and space button. if not it will be a combination button.

just press it when inside windows and it should go back to normal.

Thank You for using Fixya!

Read full answer

May 06, 2009 • Computers & Internet

Not finding what you are looking for?

View Most Popular

TravelMate 803LMi Notebook

Computers & Internet

I need the mac number of my samsung NP-900X3A laptop in order to trace it.

Samsung 900x Ultraportable Laptop Ultrabook

Open Questions:

0answers

driver acer travelmate 803lmi

Read full answer

Be the first to answer Aug 10, 2013 • Acer TravelMate 803LMi Notebook

0answers

my dvd/cd driver can't read blank dvd. i insert a blank dvd-r or dvd+r, to write in my video and pic inside, but my NEC Versa E600 laptop can't read the blank disc. After i insert the blank dvd, it came out no dvd insert. But at my laptop, it stated dvd and rewritable disc, but it can't read the disc. What's the problem?

Read full answer

Be the first to answer Jan 30, 2009 • Acer TravelMate 803LMi Notebook

97 views

Ask a Question

Usually answered in minutes!

Check Out the Mobile Browsers Report

View all Fixya Reports

Are you an Acer Computer and Internet Expert? Answer questions, earn points and help others

Answer questions

Manuals & User Guides

Have a manual for Acer TravelMate 803LMi Notebook? Or just drag it here!

Related Topics:

My laptop does not start