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Clevo W870 CU - Can someone please help me, or just shoot me...?!?

post #1 of 17
12/23/10 at 1:14pm
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I've just received my W870 CU (I presume the "CU" is for the abbreviated word for lady parts) from getting it repaired, one and half months(Been back to Taiwan)! Just to have some plastic replaced.

Well after receiving it back, I boot up the system and the Caps/Num lock starts flashing I log in, and it just beeps and turns off!
I tried taking the battery out and booting it up, but the same thing happens.

I would send it back, after the new year(Bad Snow). I'm hoping that someone has an answer here, I'm willing to take it apart, I have a SCREWDRIVER!

Thanks.
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post #2 of 17
12/23/10 at 2:48pm
How many beeps do you hear before it shuts off?
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post #3 of 17
12/23/10 at 3:09pm
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One. sometimes even no beeps. and the flashing caps don't start flashing until logging into windows.
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post #4 of 17
12/23/10 at 4:18pm
Try remove and re-seat everything that you can - hard drive, ram modules, wireless card etc ... and cross the fingers.

cheers ...
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post #5 of 17
12/23/10 at 5:19pm
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Reset what I could, ram, hard drive, wasn't sure about wifi, but looked as if it wasn't out of place.
Anyway rebooted, same problem. Tried different ram sticks at once, same thing.

Although I did try windows memory diagnostics and this is where it got mental, started flashing the caps and num and now BEEPING constantly, until around 22 percent of the way it cut out. but didn't show any errors.

So any ideas? Have they broken my ram?
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post #6 of 17
12/23/10 at 5:27pm
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Originally Posted by DaffyOnLSD View Post
Reset what I could, ram, hard drive, wasn't sure about wifi, but looked as if it wasn't out of place.
Anyway rebooted, same problem. Tried different ram sticks at once, same thing.

Although I did try windows memory diagnostics and this is where it got mental, started flashing the caps and num and now BEEPING constantly, until around 22 percent of the way it cut out. but didn't show any errors.

So any ideas? Have they broken my ram?
my suspicion at the moment - got any spares somewhere to try, and size would do

cheers ...
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post #7 of 17
12/23/10 at 5:30pm
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only what's in this dell.
guess will try.

charz!!!
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post #8 of 17
12/23/10 at 5:35pm
Good luck.

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post #9 of 17
12/23/10 at 5:46pm
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NOPE, no good, same old song.
In fact using the sticks in this Dell, no problem with the memory.
Argh.
Motherboard it is then.
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post #10 of 17
12/23/10 at 5:49pm
Strange that motherboard problem would let you even login in Windows. How about trying to boot the system up from an installation CD?

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post #11 of 17
12/23/10 at 6:11pm
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Ok tried that, it was looking good until took the cd out.
Now it even does it at BIOS/boot screen. with the cd in or out. and it beeps at the bios, I presume a specific amount of times.
27 it seems to be BEEP. update, nope it's random, i got 26, then 30, argh.


It's almost like it's some heating issue, the longer I leave it to cool the longer it takes for it to start doing it.
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post #12 of 17
12/24/10 at 7:29am
Take the notebook apart, remove and review the heat-sink and CPU, applying new thermal paste.

cheers ...
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post #13 of 17
12/24/10 at 7:47am
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Yeah I've thought that myself.
But I tried booting up without the bottom cover,
and at no stage did the fan kick in, be never turned on at all.
so I checked the temperature on speed fan and it got to 55 Celsius before it cut out(doesn't seem like much?)


Gpu fan*
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post #14 of 17
12/24/10 at 8:09am
They might forget to plug back certain connectors

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post #15 of 17
12/24/10 at 9:53am
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I've got a GTX 280M is this the correct connection for the fan?
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post #16 of 17
12/24/10 at 10:53am
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I put the fan into the empty connector (VGA) and that seems to be working holding temp at 38-39.
qhn thanks for everything Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you!
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post #17 of 17
12/24/10 at 10:54am
Nice to hear. Here's the service manual just in case you would need it in the future. Just unzip it to a pdf -

A Christmas gift to you (and to everyone) from NBF.

Merry Christmas!

cheers ...
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