My Laptop is totally imoperative

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I have an ASUS X59LS Lap-top computer with Windows Vista.

The computer will not boot up. The screen remains black and black. I cannot even access bois by pressing 'delete'. It apears the keyboard not working at all, like it is not even detected as though it is not plugged in what it is. It won't boot up from any HDD or CD/DVD like they too atr not even plugged in, as they are not detected. The CD/DVD drive just repeatly clicks without detecting where or not there is a bootable disk in there even when there is one there. that is the only activity the computer does at all. It appear that there is no 'communication' at all between the main inner system and it's perriferals, Screen, keyboard, CD/DVDdrive, hard drive etc. Nothing at all show up on the screen whatsoever, not eve anything like .press key to setup and press delete to enter bios. I obviously cannot therefore use a any bootable CD/DVD. It is like the only the *power* alone comes into the system and it does nothing at all but just the CD/DVD drive repeatly clicking. I have teken this in for repair, It has been check out all clear, When I got it back It booted up. It appeared the engineer must have done something to 'release' the computer, which he would have to have done in order to use his utility bootable disc to do the chechk-up. I had about three clean boot-up and then it just would not boot up again and wnet back to the same problem as I have just decribed.

I do not want o have tpo pay out another £40.00 to have the same job done again which can ohnly fail again. All the hardware and HDD are in good working order, I have even unplugged the CMOS battery to clear the BIOS and that has made no difference. There must have been a simple 'trick' that engineer did to get it to work so he could check it out. That was no a repair that had to be paid for, he just did a check-up and all the equipment was found to have no faults. I know there is nothing wrong with the HDD itself either. The fact it did boot up those few times since I got it home is proff that there is nothing wrong the the equipment or Vista.

I don't awnt to have to keep paying out to the repair shop for a fualt they are not finding or fixing. I am disabilit benefits and cannot keep paying out £40.00 pound plus repair all the time. I have spent more than enough all ready.

There must be a simple answer to this problem somewhere and I cannot find it. I want this fixed soo as I going to London in a couple of weeks and want to take the computer with me.

 

[bkribbs]

Actually, the clicking you are hearing is probably your hard drive. That clicking means that your hard drive is dead, and you will need a new one. A dead hard drive would start your computer from booting up.

 

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It is the CD drive keep trying.

I allr eady know it is not the hard disk. When I listen closely, it is the CD drive repeatly trying to detect the disc. The fact I have had this problem before and took it for repair for nothing, and it booted uo fine again, is proff that it is not the hard drive. The engineer would certainly have detected it striaghtaway if that as the case and he detected nothing of any sort being wrong with the computer.

But a few days alter the same mysterious problem has happened again.

I have even plugged the hard drive by an adapter through the USB to my Desktop computer it could access it with no problem, that is another item of proff that The drive is not dead.

 

[Mr.laptop]

Did you try to hook up an external monitor? see if there is anything coming out?

 

[Shamstar]

I don't think there is any way to use another monitor on a lap-top anyway. It only works with it own built-in screen. I do sometime use a mouse plugged into the USb and that does not work which show that anything else plugged into the compuer will not work. No periferals, built-i or external will work. There is something wrong with the computer itself stopping it from detecting anything at all.

 

[Mr.laptop]

Normally a laptop has a VGA interface with which you can connect TV, projector or monitor. why I was asking you to try the external monitor. because sometime only the built-in screen (like loosed LCD connector, broken bulb or inverter of LCD) doesn't work properly, but the laptop actually already boots up, you aren't able to watch it because of no display.

 

[Shamstar]

It is not just the screen not working, it won't pick up of the CD drive even when there is a boootable disc in it and it won't boot up from the hard drive either and it won't go into bios setting or setup etc by pressing delete because it ingore anything on the keyboard. It is not working enything at all.