I've had my had my 9860 for I'd say around 5 months, I'd have to find my receipt but I purchased I believe in November or December last year from PCTorque. I use it daily as my gaming machine, and as my machine at work. I have not had a single problem, until today.
I plugged in a Kingston DataTraveller USB stick today, and the laptop rebooted. After it rebooted, I tried again, and it rebooted again. I didn't think much of it at the time, I just didn't use the USB stick and continued working.
Once I got home, I went to fire it up, and it wouldn't boot at all. I had power, and LED activity, but the front clock wouldn't come on, I had no display or POST to speak of. I reseated the memory and processor, and then it booted. I got into Windows, and went to plug in my USB mouse and it rebooted again. As it was booting this time I pushed F2 to check out the BIOS, and as I was browsing the options, it locked solid on me.
Right now, when I try to power it on, sometimes It boots, sometimes it doesn't even POST or give me a display. I had it boot once and left it idling with Mobile Meter running so I could watch the temperature, it never strayed far from 48C and it just hard locked again. I'm back in Windows now just idling some more, it's been 10 minutes without a lock or reboot.
Thoughts or suggestions? I'll try calling Sager tomorrow, although I think I'm reading on their website that they aren't open Saturdays.
I plugged in a Kingston DataTraveller USB stick today, and the laptop rebooted. After it rebooted, I tried again, and it rebooted again. I didn't think much of it at the time, I just didn't use the USB stick and continued working.
Once I got home, I went to fire it up, and it wouldn't boot at all. I had power, and LED activity, but the front clock wouldn't come on, I had no display or POST to speak of. I reseated the memory and processor, and then it booted. I got into Windows, and went to plug in my USB mouse and it rebooted again. As it was booting this time I pushed F2 to check out the BIOS, and as I was browsing the options, it locked solid on me.
Right now, when I try to power it on, sometimes It boots, sometimes it doesn't even POST or give me a display. I had it boot once and left it idling with Mobile Meter running so I could watch the temperature, it never strayed far from 48C and it just hard locked again. I'm back in Windows now just idling some more, it's been 10 minutes without a lock or reboot.
Thoughts or suggestions? I'll try calling Sager tomorrow, although I think I'm reading on their website that they aren't open Saturdays.
