X201s No display, I need help please.

[mekabrew]

Hello, ok firstly I have never posted in a forum before so hopefully I have posted this in the right place.

I have recently bought a secondhand X201s. The guy I bought it off said it started up into windows 70% of the time and occasionaly crashed. When the laptop arrived it wouldn`t even boot up at all. It seems to be powering up (or trying to) all the lights are on but there`s no display at all, the screen is completly blank. I have tried the taking out the power and battery, holding down the on button for 30seconds trick but that didn`t help. I thought I might need a bios update so I burned one to cd and to usb (x201s has no cd drive) the laptop didnt seem to recognise the usb stick or the external cd drive. So I`m a bit stuck on what the problem may be.

I also made sure the hard drive and ram were in correctly.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Brad]

Welcome to the forum!

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

Are there any beeps?

Brad

[mekabrew]

Hello, thanks for the quick reply. No there`s no beeps.

[Brad]

Try removing the memory and starting. If still no beeps in my opinion, unfortunately, you need a new motherboard.

Brad

[mekabrew]

Hi, I took out the RAM and it beeped!

Thanks Scott

[Atreides]

Sounds like bad RAM then, try booting it one stick at a time in each slot.

[mekabrew]

Yeah I tried that allready but still no joy maybe I can borrow some ram from somebody and try that.

Thanks

[Atreides]

Yeah I tried that allready but still no joy maybe I can borrow some ram from somebody and try that.

Thanks

I don't think I've ever seen both sticks be faulty, but I suppose its possible. Unfortunately it seems more likely that its your motherboard now. Any warranty left?

[mekabrew]

Nah no warranty left unfortunatly. I will take it into a shop and let you know what they have to say about it.

Thanks for the advice.

[richk]

Try pulling everything not needed to start except memory - battery, wifi, HDD, DVD, etc.