Boot problems I have a drive that won't poower up. It has worked previously without trouble. Now I can get the light on the power switch to come on, but it stays amber (ie. doesn't progress to flashing followed by going green). I have tried disconnecting it from the network and then reconnecting. Ditto disconnecting the power cable. I have also reset the unit. All suggestions appreciated.

Temitope, Hard reset. Open computer, remove battery,hold power button down (((1 minute))), reinsert battery, reassemble laptop, push/hold power button a couple seconds.
2nd fix, try to boot laptop without hdd.(hard drive). Remove the hdd, then turn on the laptop.. then it can get into the bios.. reset the bios to the default setting, turn off the laptop, and then turn it on again with hdd reinstalled. This seems to be what works in the forums with this issue found in Asus laptops. Check the attached links,instruction and guides, Good luck
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You may have the yellow light of death. You get the yellow light of death when the playstation stays on too long or alot of use or it may taken some damage.

step one, big battery out? skipped that?
step 2, a good power pack , that means 19vdc on those 2 pins.
bingo BIOS screen now work ,yes?
step 3, try an external VGA screen at the P15 VGA jack there
screens work now (BIOS first) yes/no?

remove DVD, drive
and all USB devices
there booting with only 1 memory stick. (got more?, try each 1 by 1)
black screens of *****'.

the lack of flash codes, Implies Power pack is dead. or CPU overheated, and selfshuts down. that fan going dead tells
me the power park is dead.

http://pcdied.com/#black-screens

check by removing the battery then put it back again power it on, or without battery power it on directly then check, if still the same problem, the fault is in the motherboard of the laptop, better take it the service center or consult some technician in your area

Hi.

Take out the AC power jack and then remove the laptop battery. Plug AC power back in and see if the laptop will turn on. If it turns on let it boot the operating system and then shut down as normal, remove the power cord and reinsert the battery and again see if it will switch on. If it does then there has been a glitch with the battery. If it doesn't then there is a problem with the battery.

If the laptop won't switch on either with or without the battery then there is a possibility that the motherboard has developed a problem.


Good luck.

Please replace the controller

Try booting up with windows disk in the drive

Time to look for a new computer. That and take out your hard drive to copy your files over.

Sounds like motherboard problem. Probably not worth repair.

I've got an HP desktop with similar problems. It turned on one day just fine. The next day not. I don't even get the boot up screens. Disconnecting Hard Drive and CD/DVD components do not help. I should at least get some BIOS POST beeps and a Hard Drive Not Found or such. I do not. On occassion it will boot to a blank screen with white cursor in upper left. Most the time no screen at all. On rare occassion it comes right on and boots Windows. I guess it could be the power switch ... but I doubt that.

blinkin red light usually means hardware failer the only 2 easy tricks to try that wont void your warrenty is
#1 remove the hard drive and boot it up without it and see if it boots and says no hard drive then shut it down and plug the hard drive back in if it works now then was just a drive error if it goes back to blinkin you have a bad drive.

#2 the fan test that also seems to clear any over heating or other blinkin light problems --- turn the ps3 off for 40 seconds by the switch on the back then hold down the eject button and flip the power switch back on while still holding the eject button and see if that clears it.

sounds like something is drawing down on your 12 volt supply drives or on board regulators. Try it without the drives connectged, and see if you can get the system to boot up(you'll just get a notice that your drives are unavailable, but you'll already know that, right?

got backup for your Dell?