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laptop won't boot, screen stays black

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Stern

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I had the computer in work, downloaded some files, etc, nothing unusual. I shut it down, brought it home, plugged in the power cable, and pressed the power button. It made the normal boot up sounds, then I heard the CD-ROM clicking briefly as it checked for a CD (also normal), then it turned itself off. I turned it on again, this time it stayed on, but nothing showed up on the screen. I couldn't hear any of the normal boot up soiunds, like the harddrive being accessed or anything like that. The only way I could turn it off was by holding down the power button.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I've ordered one of those 2.5" IDE to USB converters so I can at least get my files off the hard drive. I've also tried plugging a monitor into the VGA output but nothing showed up at all, even after waiting until it -should- have booted up and then messing around with the monitor function key.

Any help hugely appreciated,

Thanks,

Stern
 
Does anyone know if taking out the memory or the hard drive and then trying to boot up without would be a good or bad idea? Or if it would even work?
 
If it beeped at me that would be doing more than it is now. If it did beep at me if I took it out, would this be an indication maybe of what part is or isn't broke? Currently I really have no idea whatsoever which part(s) might be broken.
 
Its possible that it is bad memory. What kind of laptop is it?

If you get nothing on the screen (literally nothing) and cant get to the BIOS the system is not POSTing in which case its safe to rule out a HDD issue.

Removing the memory\HDD wont hurt anything but odds are you won't get drastically different behavior. If you system has 2 memory modules pull both of them and only install one in slot 1 and try it. If the same thing occurs try the other one.
 
Its a Yakumo laptop, not sure what the model is as the tag is worn down so much. As far as I know they don't even make laptops anymore. It's got an Intel Celeron 1.3 Ghz CPU, 512 MB RAM (probably SD 😛), a one-year old 160 GB Seagate Momentus harddrive, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW, wireless, IR, 15" ish screen. As far as I was able to tell when I looked at it (at work now, can't check) there is only one memory module. Not sure if there are 2 slots though, so maybe I could switch slots?

Edit: The graphics card is a Radeon Mobility 9000
 
No, its exceptionally unlikely that a slot is bad, which doesn't matter as in most cases slot 1 has to be filled.
 
Ok, so does anyone know of any way I can test this memory? I have a new Gateway laptop which uses DDR2 memory (so I guess thats out) and my girlfriend has a Core Duo MacbookPro and I think that uses DDR2 aswell. Will I just have to order new RAM?
 
I'd say pick it up somewhere locally from somewhere you can return it if it winds up not being the memory thats the issue.
 
I just moved to DC a few weeks ago and am living in the US for the first time. I have absolutely no idea where locally would mean 😉

Anyone know DC that can tell me where to find the sort of place that sells SD laptop memory? (I assume its SD, due to its age)
 
Ok, so I had a look. This is a Yakumo G551 laptop. Nothing comes up under yakumo but apparently ECS also made this laptop, called it G551, it looks exactly the same, and according to Crucial.com's memory selector it takes DDR 2700 memory.

It was a bought end of 2002, start 2003, does this sound like the right time for DDR?
 
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