Laptop won't power on

Stephen

I have a Gericom laptop ("1st Supersonic PCI-E") that came from Aldi in March of 2005. Its been working fine since I got it until yesterday. Now it just won't switch on, with both full battery and AC power. I've tried both with and without the battery installed, and on battery only.

When I press the power button, its LED comes on for a second, as do the hard disk and DVD access LEDs, then they all switch off. There's no sound of fans or the disk spinning or anything. The charge LED stays on (green when fully charged, orange when charging) throughout.

There's a pinhole reset button on the underside of it, which I assume resets the BIOS settings. I've tried that to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas what's up with it?

Specs if it makes any difference:

Intel Centrino 1.73ghz/2MB L2
100gig IDE disk
nvidia 6600go 128 mb graphics chipset
onboard gig-e lan
1gb DDR2-533
mat****a DVD+/-RW/RAM drive

Installed OS's: Win XP SP2 and SuSE Linux 10.0


Cheers.

majiktripp

Take out the ram,thats my first guess as with most laptops that power on for a second,if you can check is there a small compartment on underside of laptop,open it up and remove 1 stick of ram at a time,then try turning it on.Hopefully this will get you up and going again.Although Gericom notebooks are a B*stard to open up....

Stephen

They have warranty seals around the memory compartment. I might be able to get it open without visibly disturbing the seal though...

majiktripp

You could try that,if its under warranty why not just let them sort it out?It'll be gone for a week or three (I've dealt with lidl mind you not aldi) but their pickup and return service is ok.It'll save you having to replace a stick of ram,assuming that is the problem...

Stephen

Just to update: It was indeed a faulty stick of RAM, replaced it and its working perfectly again

Thanks.

majiktripp

No problems