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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: lassie on December 11, 2012, 03:41:55 PM
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Hi guys i have an older Laptop that suddenly went dead. It just went black in a second, and will not power on or anything. I toke it apart, to see if there was a fuse, but there was not. Any thoughts to what it can be, or what i can do?
It is a Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Laptop
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Maybe it sounds silly but did you check the external PSU?
Most PSUs have an indication LED. Is it on?
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Maybe it sounds silly but did you check the external PSU?
Most PSUs have an indication LED. Is it on?
Hi i have tried 2 PSU on it, but it is still dead. After it went dead, i noticed there was a little smell from it, like burned plastic.
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Probably a fried component on the motherboard or DC/DC converter board.
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Hi i have tried 2 PSU on it, but it is still dead. After it went dead, i noticed there was a little smell from it, like burned plastic.
Chances are either one of it's internal components blew up or your battery died.
Have you tried removing the battery and plugging the PSU in without it?
Mine wouldn't turn on (or it would turn off after much less than 5 seconds) whenever I tried to with the battery still in place.
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Chances are either one of it's internal components blew up or your battery died.
Have you tried removing the battery and plugging the PSU in without it?
Mine wouldn't turn on (or it would turn off after much less than 5 seconds) whenever I tried to with the battery still in place.
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No i have not tried that, but i will :) Do they not use fuses anymore, in newer things? All my old Computers/Consoles have fuses, but not this one, or maybe they look nothing like the old fuses i am used to, because i could not find it :)
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Was it particularly it when it shut down for the last time? My old laptop died about a year ago very suddenly, never turned on again much like yours. It was pretty hot, and had a tendency to shut down from time to time I assume due to excessive heat. (Couldn't always cool itself sufficiently I guess)
If it was a heat problem, a chip could have died. That could be pretty bad, but there are some repair shops that can change chips out there.
I'd guess that a loose power brick connector wouldn't have gone down so suddenly. It'd have given you a plug me in warning as the battery went down, and you'd have noticed that it didn't recognize the power cord. And it should have tried to turn on for a moment but then give you a critical battery indicator of some kind and not come fully on, and go back off.
In my case, there is a possibility of a short, as when I started looking, I realized that one of the battery lock clips had dislodged and vanished inside, so there's probably a spring wandering around in there... Someday I'll crack it wide open and look around further, and I plan to do some serious laptop repair learning soon, but for now I'm kindof guessing.
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No i have not tried that, but i will :) Do they not use fuses anymore, in newer things? All my old Computers/Consoles have fuses, but not this one, or maybe they look nothing like the old fuses i am used to, because i could not find it :)
Stuff is designed to be more disposable these days, companies have more of a "go buy a new one" mentality, especially if it's old as the OP indicated for this laptop. These things aren't really designed to be user serviceable anymore. But like with Apple laptops and Droid 4 batteries, things are possible if you're motivated and more clever than the average hostile product designer.
Look for burn marks. Something may have acted like a fuse, even if it wasn't one. :) I once got to watch an EMI filter on the leftside connector of my A500 go up in flames while it was running. It was quite exciting and horrifying all at the same time.
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Was it particularly it when it shut down for the last time? My old laptop died about a year ago very suddenly, never turned on again much like yours. It was pretty hot, and had a tendency to shut down from time to time I assume due to excessive heat. (Couldn't always cool itself sufficiently I guess)
If it was a heat problem, a chip could have died. That could be pretty bad, but there are some repair shops that can change chips out there.
I'd guess that a loose power brick connector wouldn't have gone down so suddenly. It'd have given you a plug me in warning as the battery went down, and you'd have noticed that it didn't recognize the power cord. And it should have tried to turn on for a moment but then give you a critical battery indicator of some kind and not come fully on, and go back off.
In my case, there is a possibility of a short, as when I started looking, I realized that one of the battery lock clips had dislodged and vanished inside, so there's probably a spring wandering around in there... Someday I'll crack it wide open and look around further, and I plan to do some serious laptop repair learning soon, but for now I'm kindof guessing.
Yes it sounds like what happened to mine. It is not one i use so often, and i had to download some programs, so i guess i pushed it to much, it was downloading when it happened, and had for a few hours, maybe it got to hot along the way.
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Yes it sounds like what happened to mine. It is not one i use so often, and i had to download some programs, so i guess i pushed it to much, it was downloading when it happened, and had for a few hours, maybe it got to hot along the way.
If laptops (or any PC, for that matter) are getting too hot, they normally shut down automatically.