Posts by Mercorey

@qhn   I want to apologize...    I missed your thread when you stated that it can't be in sleep mode if the hard drive is out.   If I knew that, I would have never took it apart to find the...

Well,   I called Gateway's "Tech Support" and it appears that there is no direct answer as to what could be wrong with my laptop.   This is what the Tech at Gateway suggested.   Replace the power supply (buy...

Gateway NV53 Well,   Took apart the CPU to find the "magnet" and I wasted about two hours doing it the way the owner manual said to do it. All I had to do is pop of the 4 rubber screw covers on the front of the LCD and...

10-4   I plan on starting this project after lunch today. (Eastern Standard Time)

Thanks,    I am almost positive that it is the lid switch/magnet.   Actually, the manual has a trouble shooting guide on page 130 of the document that suggest that I check the magnet to make sure that it is in...

I did that last night. (downloaded the PDF file from Gateway and saved to to Google Docs)    You can view it here. https://docs.google.com/open?id=18Tg3XfRG4WeqHoLoXaecKnmrCMTKQYfrLTXlYPML2KiWdX4bNivHeAIEW9ys  

Also,   Now that I put the HD back in and now when i try to boot up, the fan only goes on for a few seconds and then cuts off. But all the lights are on and active. Power light, speaker volume up and down lights work and so...

That is the first thing that I did.    The problem is...  by it being stuck in sleep mode, it will never follow the boot sequence so it will never make it to the DVD drive to even boot from the OS...

No luck.   I took out the hard drive and power up the laptop but it's still in sleep mode. Only thing different this time is that the fan doesn't come on with the hard drive out. The power lights come on though.

Negative.