Laptop boot problem

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jmorris

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Toshiba Satellite M35x-s329
When I turn my laptop on, the fan runs for a second then stops. The screen stays black and my cd drive will not even eject or give any light. I manually opened the cd drive and put in the boot cd but the drive does not work at all. The computer will stay on until the battery dies and the battery will beep when low. Any idea what the problem could be? Hard drive, motherboard???

I may purchase a hard drive just to test and see if that works.
If the hard drive is fine, how well do those IDE Notebook to PC adapters work or is there maybe a USB adapter of some sort?

Thanks in advance.
 
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funny you asked.
I was playing golf then I got the call from the girlfriend that she was using it then the screen went black. Before I left, her friend had it on the side of the bed which is the screenshot that popped into my head as soon as she told me something was wrong with it. She insists it was not dropped, so I believe her.
 
First mistake, dont have your phone on when playing golf...
Do you hear any beeps, and is this only on battery power, or also when the power cord is plugged in?
 
i hear ya...it was on silent and we were still trying to make new years plans.

happens both on batttery only and ac only. I get no beep at all. The only beep is when the battery starts getting low from leaving it on.


I can view the harddrive fine from my desktop. Just went and bought a usb adapter. Computer boots the same problem with the hard drive not installed. Nothing on screen. I tried to remove different ram modules and swapped them and tried one at a time. Same problem.
 
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a goofy possibility

I had a very similar problem with my Toshiba Satellite p25-s507. Everyone kept saying it was the motherboard. Even took it to some so-called professionals and they said the same thing.

After googling around a bit (and several months later with a dead computer) I remembered something about someone or place saying something about RAM. I eventually pulled-out an aftermarket memory chip, replaced it with the original and, voila "IT'S ALIVE". Do you have new memory or tried reseating the old chips? Try it. Might save you five hundred bucks.
 
ironyman said:
I had a very similar problem with my Toshiba Satellite p25-s507. Everyone kept saying it was the motherboard. Even took it to some so-called professionals and they said the same thing.

After googling around a bit (and several months later with a dead computer) I remembered something about someone or place saying something about RAM. I eventually pulled-out an aftermarket memory chip, replaced it with the original and, voila "IT'S ALIVE". Do you have new memory or tried reseating the old chips? Try it. Might save you five hundred bucks.
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Try reseting the ram. Take out the ram and put it in a different slot that it originally came from.
 
Unfortunately I have tried that already. I tried every possible combination I could have with the RAM. Thanks though.
 
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