jwhert

i was usin my laptop on battery, and it went dead, no where near lasting as long as it normally does, didnt think much of it, plugged it in, still not turning on, the light that comes on to show its charging isnt coming on and ive tried it in multiple outlets

what should i try, what might be the problem, all i was doing when it crashed was using instant messenger and mozilla w/ about 4 tabs

jmedina

Strange. Maybe it is your motherboard. Is it going to BIOS?

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HP dc5700 Desktop
512 MB
70 GB HD
Windows XP Professional

Ibook G3
800 MHZ
256 MB
30 GB Hard Drive

jwhert

all i did was take the ram out and put it back in, followed the instructions on the hp tech support website for reseating the ram or somethin, well its back workin now so im happy

jmedina

Glad to know it's fixed!

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HP dc5700 Desktop
512 MB
70 GB HD
Windows XP Professional

Ibook G3
800 MHZ
256 MB
30 GB Hard Drive

jwhert

ok, its not fixed

it is just randomly shutting down, not even w/ the shut down process, just turning off instantly, and its gettin worse and worse, did it about 10 times today already, i can fix it everytime by takin the memory out and putting it back in, but what might be the actual fix for this, so im not constantly doing this all the time

it turns off instantly w/ no warning, then wont come back on til i take th ememory out and put it back in, like when it turns off, i plug the power cord back in an dstill no sign of it working til i take the memory out and put it back in, it seems like a power issue but then i almost know its not by the way it works when i fix it, and when it is on the battery shows 100% life

pies

Is there another laptop you cant test the memory in?
Did you try a different ac adapter, or trying it with out the battery in (if you can)?

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Desktop
Case-Antec 1200/Psu- Abs 800 watt
Motherboard- Gigabyte x48-ds5/Cpu- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Ram- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4gb ddr2 800/Gpu- sapphire ATI 4850 (x2 in crossfire)
Hdd- 1tb/ DVD- SAMSUNG/- Ac 7 pro cooler

Jabes

try this to test your ram http://www.memtest.org/#downiso download the latest version in the form of a zip file and then extract it and use a program like magic ISO to burn it

jwhert

ill be trying that later tonight, there isnt a laptop around for me to try the ram in

jwhert

ok, i ran it for a long time
came back to my room it says its on test 6 and nothing has failed yet, w/ in 10 seconds of bein in my room it dies on me, like it was just waiting to screw me over, runs fine for a long time then as soon as i get back, n e ways, not sure how many tests it had but is that good if it passes 6

yantaq

ever tried it without the battery in (if you can)?
if you can go into system and it still keeps shuts off and on,
enter safe mode and play around to see if the problem persists.