Toshiba Equium L350 - Power but no HDD activity

wheres me jumpa

My nephews laptop is powering on, the fan comes up, lights on the motherboard. But the HDD does not kick in. Nothing displayed on screen. No lights on disk drive. Ive opened it up and checked for loose connections. Thats pretty much the extent of my knowledge.

Any ideas what I should be looking for?

draven3410

how old is the laptop? either the hdd is dead, wiped or the laptop isnt booting from it. When it starts press f3 button (could be another button on you r laptop) to bring you to a start up screen. make sure it say boot up from hdd and not from disk.

strangeloop

If it was me I would first try to establish if the hdd is being seen in the bios. When you boot the laptop it will tell you which key to press to enter setup to check this. If its not listed then you have a broken disk, cable or board interface issue.

wheres me jumpa

Laptop is a year old. Im not getting to a BIOS screen so cant hit any keys. HDD funked?

J_E

Would you be able to test the HDD on another laptop/computer?

strangeloop

doesn't sound like the harddisk is the problem. looks like it might be the system board. Do you see anything on the screen when you turn the laptop on?

wheres me jumpa

Cydoniac wrote: »

Would you be able to test the HDD on another laptop/computer?

Not at the moment.

strangeloop, nothing appears on the screen, although if you look closely you can see the monitor come to life but the screen stays blank.

strangeloop

Too me it sounds like the system board is gone, or the ram or cpu. Have you tried taking the ram out and putting it back in? This is the problem with laptops, if a part goes then your left with an expensive paperweight. :mad:

wheres me jumpa

Yeah Ive reseated the RAM. Its just annoying not knowing what it is. I might drop it in somewhere and see if they have any joy fixing it.

//goes off to read sticky about where to repair

duckysauce

plug it into an external monitor to rule out the screen being dead