Advent Roma laptop Hi all, having a problem with my Advent Roma 1001 laptop. When I

jimboy2011

Hi all, having a problem with an Advent Roma 1001 laptop.
When I power the laptop on, the hard drive light comes on for a second and the fan starts up for a couple of seconds then the laptop shuts down and then turns itself back on and the same thing happens again until I turn it off.

I know it's not the battery or the power supply and I have ruled out the hard drive. When I took the back off to check the RAM to see if that was a problem I noticed there was only one memory slot and not two slots as it should be and there was no memory in this slot.! When I looked up the specs of the laptop it says it had two memory slots with two GB of ram in one of them so where is the other slot i cannot find it anywhere.

Has anyone worked on these laptops before if so can they tell me where the second memory slot is- if it exists? Could this be the actual problem the fact that there is no RAM?
I'd greatly appreciate any help with this... Cheers!

sorry i should of said i am fixing it for a pal and he says it was working fine until this happened and that was about 6 weeks ago and he hasnt touched it since.

Alanstrainor

What's the history of the laptop? Did it just suddenly stop working?

It is possible that the laptop only has one stick of RAM. It's hard to diagnose, but I would be thinking there could be a motherboard issue if it just powers off immediately.

jimboy2011

Alanstrainor wrote: »

What's the history of the laptop? Did it just suddenly stop working?

It is possible that the laptop only has one stick of RAM. It's hard to diagnose, but I would be thinking there could be a motherboard issue if it just powers off immediately.

yeh just stopped. i edited my op maybe i didnt explain well enough first time.
cheers

asgaard

Second memory slot is just under the keybo ( i suppose) as per link http://www.google.pl/imgres?q=advent+roma+1001+motherboard&um=1&hl=pl&sa=N&tbo=d&biw=1173&bih=579&tbm=isch&tbnid=ckHTKZjpp7ifOM:&imgrefurl=http://allegro.pl/plyta-glowna-advent-roma-1001-bb049-i2534372575.html&docid=1EkuXfRBUtxdiM&itg=1&imgurl=http://www.coolersystem.pl/_allegro/IMG_6381.jpg_29294_16837_25366_10517_4470.jpg_13221_30644_14018_26393_8191.jpg&w=466&h=350&ei=vGH2UJnKGJCJhQe16oCQBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=728&vpy=4&dur=583&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=114&ty=67&sig=109105100168950762228&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=169&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0,i:111

jimboy2011

asgaard wrote: »

Second memory slot is just under the keybo ( i suppose) as per link http://www.google.pl/imgres?q=advent+roma+1001+motherboard&um=1&hl=pl&sa=N&tbo=d&biw=1173&bih=579&tbm=isch&tbnid=ckHTKZjpp7ifOM:&imgrefurl=http://allegro.pl/plyta-glowna-advent-roma-1001-bb049-i2534372575.html&docid=1EkuXfRBUtxdiM&itg=1&imgurl=http://www.coolersystem.pl/_allegro/IMG_6381.jpg_29294_16837_25366_10517_4470.jpg_13221_30644_14018_26393_8191.jpg&w=466&h=350&ei=vGH2UJnKGJCJhQe16oCQBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=728&vpy=4&dur=583&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=114&ty=67&sig=109105100168950762228&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=169&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0,i:111

Ah I suppose it is..cheers. so could it be a problem with the RAM ?

FSL

How did you rule out the hard drive?

I had exactly the same thing with a HP laptop. It wouldn't even boot from a memory stick.

I assumed it was a motherboard/ power problem. I took the hard drive out to recover some data. I not only found the hard drive was dead but that with the drive out the laptop booted from the memory stick and worked fine.

jimboy2011

I tested the HD in another laptop and its fine .