R50e not booting

[plukke]

Hi all,

My dear R50e just stopped working all together. Last night I put her in stand by, but after half an hour it still had not shut down. I opened the lid and tried to get it back to windows with no luck. I pushed the power button for 10 seconds so it did power off...

This morning, I tried to boot it again, but now the thing isn't working anymore. When I push the power button the fan goes on, all the lights except the HDD light go on for a few seconds, then I am left with nothing more than a blowing fan and one light, the round one with the "Z"inside located between the HDD light and the battery light.

Has anyone encountered this before? And how did you solve it?

[thePCxp]

This happened to me before with my R51 and it needed a system board replacement.

[sco1984]

Hi all,

My dear R50e just stopped working all together. Last night I put her in stand by, but after half an hour it still had not shut down. I opened the lid and tried to get it back to windows with no luck. I pushed the power button for 10 seconds so it did power off...

This morning, I tried to boot it again, but now the thing isn't working anymore. When I push the power button the fan goes on, all the lights except the HDD light go on for a few seconds, then I am left with nothing more than a blowing fan and one light, the round one with the "Z"inside located between the HDD light and the battery light.

Has anyone encountered this before? And how did you solve it?

Few tips >

- Remove battery & try to power ON your laptop on direct power
- Keep holding "Access IBM" blue button after pressing power button and check if you can go in to BIOS.
- Remove RAM from the slot, refix it
- Remove DVD rom and fix it back

To remove inbuilt ram, you'll have to remove keyboard and then remove the ram. Sometimes due to dust and moisture this problem occurs.

Last option will be to change "CMOS" cell. In Desktop this problem occurs when CMOS battery locaed on borad is dead.


All the best,
Regards,
Amey Abhyankar.

[plukke]

After being a very busy guy for the last two months, I finally got the time to try and fix her again.

I took her apart completely. Now have a plain system board with CPU and ram installed, LCD, HDD and keyboard attached. I tried powering up the system and presto, I did get more out of it than before. Now the LCD turns on, and lets me see the huge IBM logo, but nothing more, won't go to BIOS nor continue booting....

Last night I removed the Cmos battery, checked that 3V came out of it and left it out overnight without the power cord or battery plugged in. When I tried booting this morning, I was back where I started. The full screen logo did not show...

Anyone got any further tips? Don't fancy buying a new system board, I think that's too much money to invest in this notebook, but if the only solution appears to be a new system board I might consider selling it "as it is" and buy a used machine....