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10 years ago
Seriously. What.The.Fock.
Long story short, 10 days ago, my laptop stopped working despite my attempt to fix it within the first 2 days, and now it "magically" came back to life. Don't know for how long though.
Sorry the for the long-ass post but I just wanted to know if anyone had the same problem or knew what actually happened there.
So initially I spent 2 whole days since it started failing, trying to analyze what went wrong before I came up with the conclusion that it might be the cmos or motherboard failure. But I was wrong, I think.. Here are the things I've tried in the first 2 days:
- I tried to start it with and without battery plugged in.
- Temperature is not the issue because I even gave it 2 days to cool down.
- I have 4x2GB = 8GB of RAM, took out 3 pieces and tried to run the laptop before putting them back in, nothing happened.
- Held down power button to drain any possible electrical hitches.
After all the things I tried, I figured that it would be either the cmos battery or the motherboard that fucked it up, based on what I found on the internet. So I pulled the battery off and just put the laptop on the bed, not touching it or anything for a week. And hours ago I suddenly had some "wishful thoughts" came into my mind and decided to put the battery in and tried to turn it on. Nothing happened at first so for me it seemed like the battery was completely drained. So I plugged it in and pressed the power button, and BAM, it worked.
And I was like
So after 10 minutes of flailing around, I felt like things weren't running smooth (could be my imagination), so I checked Dxdiag and found out that I only have 4GB of RAM left. That made me wonder: could it be my fault that I took the RAM out and not set it back properly? So I shut it off, removed the battery, drained the electric, took out the farther 2 RAM slots and plugged it back in since I felt like those were the ones I had some problem putting back in before. This time, the laptop started but failed to boot up. The lights on the buttons came on, but the laptop just froze, couldn't even start the boot screen. Had to force it off.
After that I tried to pull out one of the 2 RAM pieces that I recently mess with, but not plugging it back in. Same problem persisted.
Then I decided to take the second one out and putting both back in, but I swapped their places this time. And it booted up normally. Upon checking, I still only have 4GB of RAM.
So that got me thinking: what really killed my laptop back then? It's definitely not the motherboard I think, otherwise I wouldn't be able to use it now. CMOS battery, unlikely because it's still working now. So that leaves the RAM. But what really made it working again ?_? Back then I tried to start it with all 4 and only 1 piece and neither of them worked. But now it decided to work, and I don't know which one that got messed up.
The last thing I could think of is that there was some strange electrical hitches that messed my laptop up, and it went away after a week. But that's just insane.
Long story short, 10 days ago, my laptop stopped working despite my attempt to fix it within the first 2 days, and now it "magically" came back to life. Don't know for how long though.
Sorry the for the long-ass post but I just wanted to know if anyone had the same problem or knew what actually happened there.
So initially I spent 2 whole days since it started failing, trying to analyze what went wrong before I came up with the conclusion that it might be the cmos or motherboard failure. But I was wrong, I think.. Here are the things I've tried in the first 2 days:
- I tried to start it with and without battery plugged in.
- Temperature is not the issue because I even gave it 2 days to cool down.
- I have 4x2GB = 8GB of RAM, took out 3 pieces and tried to run the laptop before putting them back in, nothing happened.
- Held down power button to drain any possible electrical hitches.
After all the things I tried, I figured that it would be either the cmos battery or the motherboard that fucked it up, based on what I found on the internet. So I pulled the battery off and just put the laptop on the bed, not touching it or anything for a week. And hours ago I suddenly had some "wishful thoughts" came into my mind and decided to put the battery in and tried to turn it on. Nothing happened at first so for me it seemed like the battery was completely drained. So I plugged it in and pressed the power button, and BAM, it worked.
And I was like
So after 10 minutes of flailing around, I felt like things weren't running smooth (could be my imagination), so I checked Dxdiag and found out that I only have 4GB of RAM left. That made me wonder: could it be my fault that I took the RAM out and not set it back properly? So I shut it off, removed the battery, drained the electric, took out the farther 2 RAM slots and plugged it back in since I felt like those were the ones I had some problem putting back in before. This time, the laptop started but failed to boot up. The lights on the buttons came on, but the laptop just froze, couldn't even start the boot screen. Had to force it off.
After that I tried to pull out one of the 2 RAM pieces that I recently mess with, but not plugging it back in. Same problem persisted.
Then I decided to take the second one out and putting both back in, but I swapped their places this time. And it booted up normally. Upon checking, I still only have 4GB of RAM.
So that got me thinking: what really killed my laptop back then? It's definitely not the motherboard I think, otherwise I wouldn't be able to use it now. CMOS battery, unlikely because it's still working now. So that leaves the RAM. But what really made it working again ?_? Back then I tried to start it with all 4 and only 1 piece and neither of them worked. But now it decided to work, and I don't know which one that got messed up.
The last thing I could think of is that there was some strange electrical hitches that messed my laptop up, and it went away after a week. But that's just insane.
For hard drive, last time it died I could still get into the bios to check stuff, and there would be a disk error.
Also you did run memtest already, yush? http://www.memtest.org/
If one of your slots or RAM modules is bad, it might be able to shed some more light onto it.
I haven't run a memtest yet since I don't know which slot is causing the problem, so I will probably open it up again once I'm done with all the current work I'm queuing, then check them one by one.