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submar1ney · Post by **submar1ney** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:12 am

When i start up my fairly new Advent 7310, I hit the Power button the fans kick up & the power light comes on but nothing else. Anyone know what I can do to fix this problem?

Cheers

Ian

DIY_Johnny · Post by **DIY_Johnny** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:47 am

Could be a hard disk failure, do you see the BIOS starting at all on the screen (i.e white writing giving you system info, hardware configuration etc)

submar1ney · Post by **submar1ney** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:54 pm

No, screen stays totally blank. All i can here is the fan running.

Foggy · Post by **Foggy** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:30 pm

have you got a orange light on your monitor that turns green when booting up ?
if so does it stay orange ?
could just be something simple like monitor plug come out of back of pc ?

have you done anything recently to pc ? new cards etc etc

Geewizz · Post by **Geewizz** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:40 pm

Hold the power button in until it shuts down, then release the button. Wait a couple of seconds and then start it normally.

submar1ney · Post by **submar1ney** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:46 pm

Sorry guys, its a laptop. No lights on the monitor. No cards added etc. Also tried the on / off swith part, no joy :-(

Cheers

Ian

IDontBelieveIt · Post by **IDontBelieveIt** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:58 pm

If its 'fairly new' then they can have it back then, let them sort it out.

Sounds like the BIOS boot has kicked the bucket.

PS. Get a decent computer with a proper operating system - http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

DIY_Johnny · Post by **DIY_Johnny** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:45 pm

Only other things I can think off is
1) try a bootable CD. You may have got one with your machine.
2)The cable to the hard disk may have come dettached or not connected fully. I have this problem with my graphics card not working and PC kept overheating hence the onboard fan (on the graphics card) didn't spin But in your case the fan should be independant so will spin anyway
3) attach an external monitor to the lap top and see if you can narrow the source of the problem

Foggy · Post by **Foggy** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:00 pm

"attach an external monitor to the lap top and see if you can narrow the source of the problem"

was just going to say that ,could be the screen itself on the laptop packed in ?

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:02 pm

submar1ney wrote:When i start up my fairly new Advent 7310, I hit the Power button the fans kick up & the power light comes on but nothing else. Anyone know what I can do to fix this problem?

Cheers

Ian

Can't remember if this is the case nowadays or not, but if you have a wired keyboard, the 3 main LEDS - caps lock, scroll lock and num lock flash once or twice and then go off (num lock may stay on) as part of post. a laptop sequence shoudl be similar
If they stay on, system is not looking good!

Also try with AC power in and battery removed and see what happens.

rs232 · Post by **rs232** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:21 pm

Do add an external monitor but remember to enable it with the right Fn + key combination.
From the description I suspect a motherboard problem.

scot-canuck · Post by **scot-canuck** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:13 pm

could be that rs232, or loose ram, loose hdd cable.

People would be shocked if they saw the abuse couriers put laptops through.

MAC OS? :P its just tarted up BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) which is a distant relation of linux. Lots of BSD variants out there...apple just slapped the aqua interface on the top of theirs *puts geek glasses on*

Macs have nice design but the price makes my eyes water

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