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MT3422 Died HELP

post #1 of 8
5/13/08 at 9:34pm
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So, I have a Gateway MT3422 and I had it on, and suddenly it made this sound, almost like someone screeching a record sound and it just shut off.

I tried to turn it back on and all it did was, well nothing. The bottom blue lights by the touch pad flash, it was the CD light and it blinked twice and then all that happened was it had a blank screen and that was it.

If anyone know what this could be or anything please please please let me know.. thanks
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post #2 of 8
5/14/08 at 1:39am
Does the monitor show any picture, like the Gateway logo?
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post #3 of 8
5/14/08 at 1:56am
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Nope, it just goes to a black screen when I turn it on, that's it and the blue lights in front of the touch pad.. but that's only the blue cd light that blinks twice and then the whole thing is blank.. I don't get it. it's like the whole thing fried but I never heard the fans or anything
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post #4 of 8
5/14/08 at 2:30pm
It's hard to diagnose but you can try removing the battery, hard drive, cd drive and see if it boots. It can still be a motherboard or cpu problem but you can always try.
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post #5 of 8
5/14/08 at 7:05pm
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Yeah I tried it with out the battery and gateway support was very unhelpful.
I just don't think it would be the hard drive if the thing only has a black screen.
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post #6 of 8
5/15/08 at 3:24am
Well the first thing I read was screech which hard drives normally do when they go bad since it's one of the only mechanical objects in the laptop to make that noise. Check the processor, it might have been overloaded someone and the screech was the CPU blowing. That would lead to the blank screen if the motherboard still powers up.
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post #7 of 8
4/18/10 at 1:21pm

Gateway MA3 MA7 MX MT Series No Power problem - Solved

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Originally Posted by LilBecs View Post
So, I have a Gateway MT3422 and I had it on, and suddenly it made this sound, almost like someone screeching a record sound and it just shut off.

I tried to turn it back on and all it did was, well nothing. The bottom blue lights by the touch pad flash, it was the CD light and it blinked twice and then all that happened was it had a blank screen and that was it.

If anyone know what this could be or anything please please please let me know.. thanks
Many of you have Gateway MA3 / MA7 (MX6xxxx / MT6xxx) notebooks that don't power on at all. Some of you have replaced your jacks, only to find out that the problem remained. Replacing the board is a waste of money, because it's only a matter of time before the replacement board suffers the same fate due to a design flaw.
This problem is due to a short in between the layers on your board - but a skilled technician can still repair it. Precision Division in Clearwater FL repairs this problem in the Gateway MA3 / MA7 notebooks, and improve the board to help prevent future breakdowns from the same problem. I think they do it for about a hundred, but you'd have to call and check.
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post #8 of 8
4/18/10 at 4:12pm
Plug for his own business?...digging up an old thread like this????
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