benziner wrote:i mean your notebook has a motherboard error. The exchange is not economic.

So mobo is dead? Would it be a waste of money buying one of these 3rd party BIOS files and going that route? That's my last straw and not a very good one at that.

Thanks for your help.

I have done all of this 30 times over. Mains only, battery, both, 6 memory modules in every conceivable combination or by themselves in either bay. If it never came up I would hang it up but it does come up every 20th boot or so. Once it came up I even reflashed with the latest BIOS in case their wa...

Appears the logo screen or diagnostic screen after pressed power button. If yes, do you can go to the BIOS settings: Powerbutton on - F2 --> BIOS Setup Powerbutton on - F12 --> Boot Menu Powerbutton on - Enter --> Menu Thank you for your reply sir, I get nothing on the screen. Pure black. On about ...

Subject says it all. This has been happening for months but it used to come up after 3 or 4 boots now it never boots. I am computer savvy, have swapped in new RAM and different HD. Still no luck. This is really critical. It's my buddies laptop who is starting college today and he is flat broke. Any ...

Subject says it all. This has been happening for months but it used to come up after 3 or 4 boots now it never boots. I am computer savvy, have swapped in new RAM and different HD. Still no luck. This is really critical. It's my buddies laptop who is starting college today and he is flat broke. Any ...