> My laptop has decided it doesn't like to boot. I press the power button and > the power comes on, but no one's home, not even the bios. The light blinks > that it's in suspend mode (what the?). Never gets to the display that says > hi, I'm a computer, you have a monitor, what to mess with the bios, okay > then here's your hard drive lets rock... never makes it that far... > > Ideas before I rip it open and salvage my data off the hard drive? > > Just my luck the warrenty was up two months ago...
Welcome to my world! The exactly thing happened to me about a month ago.
The mobo just died so I had to end up getting a new laptop. It was a
Dell Inspiron 5000 who's warranty had just run out the month before;
Dell wanted $700 for a replacement motherboard. That's the price the
whole laptop was selling for on e-bay.
I decided to go light this time around and I got a small Sony Vaio. It's
been nice so far.
Luckily I've been able to get a couple hundred bucks off of scraped
parts on e-bay. Well, I hope your problem is better than mine, but it
sure has the same symptoms.
-Evan
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