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HELP: Gateway M3707 won't boot/black screen

post #1 of 5
10/26/11 at 9:20am
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I'm trying to fix my girlfriend's laptop, a Gateway M3707. It's been 'dead' for awhile, but with her now in school, it'd be a nice surprise for her to have a working laptop again. ^_^

 

Anyway, upon powering up, no fans turn on, the blue power light glows to life, and the screen turns on, bu with nothing on it, just the backlight. Screen stays on for about 30 seconds before turning off, power light still on. I don't hear any hard drive activity.

 

I had a 'similar' issue with some Asus A-150 netbooks, and was able to fix it via a blind flash of the bios, but I'm not sure that'll work here, nor do I know the key combo that would initiate a process like that.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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post #2 of 5
10/26/11 at 12:35pm
Removing ram modules, hard drive, wireless card etc ... anything that you can remove - then re-seating them.

If that does not work, try some "baking"

cheers ...
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post #3 of 5
10/26/11 at 12:56pm
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I've tried removing all but the wifi, guess that's next. The unit is quite clean too, so dust isn't an issue. What do you mean exactly by 'baking'?  If it's anything like baking a 360, I don't know if it'll generate enough heat for that, I'm not certain it's really powering on fully. Any other suggestions are welcome as well.

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post #4 of 5
10/26/11 at 1:05pm
Bake, baking = a charlatan way of reviving a dead notebook!

Search the forum for "bake" and "baking" - plenty of personal tips and guides

cheers ...
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post #5 of 5
10/26/11 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by tphive View Post

I've tried removing all but the wifi, guess that's next. The unit is quite clean too, so dust isn't an issue. What do you mean exactly by 'baking'?  If it's anything like baking a 360, I don't know if it'll generate enough heat for that, I'm not certain it's really powering on fully. Any other suggestions are welcome as well.

How is the power brick for that laptop, and how is the battery? Have you switched out for another power brick--universal or Gateway?

What you're describing sounds like the the SIO chip (boot-time power manager, among other things) isn't even spinning up the fans. That's a failure very early on in the process.
It might be getting weird readings from the power unit--either the main battery or otherwise the power brick (which the power unit talks to).

Have you tried booting with the battery removed?
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