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Dead NP5160, DC jack, fuse, or motherboard?

post #1 of 7
10/25/12 at 10:56am
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Hi everyone, so I've had my NP5160 for about a year and a half now and I absolutely love it.  Unfortunately, the other day I fell while I was skateboarding with my laptop in my bag.  It continued to work fine until today.  In the middle of doing some work, my charger light started blinking (and making a weird intermitent sound) and then my laptop just shut off.  Now it doesn't do anything when I try to turn it on (with or without the battery and with or without being plugged in), and the light continues to blink on the charger when it's plugged in.  The battery should still have some charge on it.

 

I'm trying to diagnose the problem so I don't spend a lot of money, so I have a few questions.

1.  Would a bad DC jack or fuse prevent the laptop from running off battery?

2.  Are there any complete disassembly instructions for this laptop?

 

Any help or insight would be appreciated! Thanks.

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post #2 of 7
10/25/12 at 11:00am
Review and re-seat the ram modules, hard drive and anything that you can get your hands on. It is possibly that the impact had knocked something loose.

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post #3 of 7
10/25/12 at 7:39pm
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Hey, thanks for the reply.  I checked just in case, although I was sure none of that would cause the current symptoms.  Since it doesn't respond at all, something must be wrong with the electric circuit, which is why I imagine the culprit is either the DC jack, the fuse, or the motherboard.  Does anyone know if the DC jack closes the circuit? I feel like that might just have gotten loose and that's why it doesn't turn on. A video for taking this laptop apart would be perfect... does the keyboard cover need to come off? I don't see how it could...

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post #4 of 7
10/26/12 at 1:26am
There is not need to jump into the power jack / board issue just yet. All you need is to access the drive, the ram modules, the wireless card ... anything you can get to without taking the whole machine apart first. Remove them, put them back ... see how it goes.

As far as taking the comp apart, search the Sager Clevo section here, there are plenty of guides

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post #5 of 7
10/26/12 at 9:59am
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Thanks again, although as I previously stated, I've tried all of that.

 

From my understanding of hardware and circuits, it seems like a faulty connection for any of those components would not cause a computer to turn on.  If anything, it would turn on and give some error.  Since it doesn't respond at all, I feel like the issue must be somewhere in the power supply circuit.

 

About taking it apart, I've already tried searching, but found nothing for this specific model.  I know quite a few of the recent Sager laptops have a similar layout, but I don't know which ones to look for, which is why I asked here.

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post #6 of 7
10/26/12 at 10:05am
Sorry about that. The compatible (same) model of the Sager NP5160 is the Clevo W150HN

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post #7 of 7
10/26/12 at 10:08am
http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/e-services/Download.asp

has a user guide, with some technical pics of the, not so much, but may be you can use them as reference

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