Well, I woke up this morning, turned on my 9860 and it froze on the WIndows loading screen. I powered it off, turned it back on and now it's nothing but a paperwieght. The light around the power button will turn on, the battery and power LED come on, the keyboard LEDS flash briefly, the hard drive LED flashes once and the CPU fan spins to life but that's it. Monitor doesn't come on, no BIOS beeps, the clock on the front of the unit doesn't turn on... this really bites. Anyone have any ideas? Also, can I/should I get it fixed or is it pointless now?

Mine did the exact same thing and it ended up bening the RAM that went bad...

RAM? Both sticks or just one?

order a 256 pc4200 soddim stick of ram from newegg.com and plug it into the laptop after you removed all the other ram in it. see if this works. if not, you have a dead mobo. my first 9860 did the exact same thing and i sent it back to have them replace the entire system.

After reading the board here, it sure seems like there is a very high number of 9860's with problems after only a year or so. Am I reading more into it than there is or is there really a defect with these? I'm really not happy that a $2000+ laptop only lasted a year before dieing.

perception is one thing, reality another. Yes it seems as if there have been many posts with bad motherboards on 9860s. Mine was one. Had to have it replaced. Yet, who knows what their percentages are. Doubt Sager or Clevo would tell you. I have a gut feeling Clevo got in a bad batch of motherboards and the problem has since been corrected.

Same thing happened to me a month ago. It was a mobo problem, which cost me around $700 for a replacement. I regret not buying 3 yr warranty for my laptop. Learn my lesson: either do not buy desktop replacement or buy looong warranty for it.