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Need some help with dead Aurora

post #1 of 4
10/24/10 at 10:53pm
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I have an Alienware Aurora M9700 laptop and it will not boot up any more. When I press the power button the power light comes on, but nothing else happens. If I hold the power button down the hard drive LED and the disc drive LED both flash for a fraction of a second every 5 or so seconds. It will also not turn off on it's own. I have to unplug the power cord and take out the battery in order for it to power off.I took out both video cards, both hard drives, all of the ram, the cmos battery, the disc drive, the wireless card, both the heat sinks and it still would not boot. It did the exact same thing. I then unplugged the touchpad cable, the keyboard cable, the LCD cable, and the webcam cable but it still would not boot. Same story goes for when I reseated every connection. I even applied new thermal compound to the chipset, video cards, and the processor.Is there anything I forgot to check? What could be causing this problem?
Also, what are the bare minimum components needed to boot? *
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post #2 of 4
10/24/10 at 11:23pm
To POST, you need power, motherboard with functional BIOS, memory, processor, and video

To boot to an operating system, you also need hard drive w/OS installed

After all your efforts, I would tend to think that your motherboard died.
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post #3 of 4
10/25/10 at 12:39pm
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Is it feasable to get it repaired by a computer technician in the Chicago land area, or is this something too specialized? I would really hate to spend $320+ on a new mobo not to mention the labor costs.

Also, has anyone on these boards done business with www.ztronics.com? They seem to be the only people specifically marketing alienware mobo repairs.

Thanks for the input.
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post #4 of 4
10/25/10 at 1:57pm
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Originally Posted by wooorgle View Post
Is it feasable to get it repaired by a computer technician in the Chicago land area, or is this something too specialized? I would really hate to spend $320+ on a new mobo not to mention the labor costs.

Also, has anyone on these boards done business with www.ztronics.com? They seem to be the only people specifically marketing alienware mobo repairs.

Thanks for the input.
Most computer techs couldn't do anything with it. They'd have to know a bit of electrical engineering and have the necessary equipment to check for and fix electricity conduction problems and possibly replace capacitors or other potentially failed components. It's possible, but I wouldn't count on it.

From a little Google searching, it appears your machine is an Arima W830DA, so you could theoretically get a motherboard from Arima directly which might be cheaper than getting it replaced through Alienware, but it's most likely going to end up costing a lot of money to fix either way.
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