Faulty notebook

Shadowsilence · Posted: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:07:23 Post Subject: Faulty notebook

I have a notebook acer something or another, that died awhile back. I thought it was the video in it, as it just turns on. However I decided to look at it today, without a hard drive, or ram, it simply does nothing. I turn it on, I heard the cd-rom make a noise or two. But then nothing. Which makes me think the entire motherboard is toast, any other possible choices?

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:23:36 Post Subject:

does it have an external video connection? If so, try connecting that to an external monitor and see if you get anything when you turn it on. I've seen at least two notebooks that seemed to turn on but had blank screens. Both of them had problems with the tiny switch that turns the monitor off when you close the top.

Shadowsilence · Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:11:17 Post Subject:

I'll give that a shot once I put it all back together, but shouldn't a notebook beep error codes if there's no ram/hdd?