Help!! Laptop won't start!!

[Shannon Chou]

After i opened up my laptop, removed my hdd and insert it to my father's laptop and put it back to my own laptop, my laptop won't even post now. When i pressed the on button, the screen is just black, nothing appears. Only the power and the num lock lights are on, hdd light turned on when i pressed on then it goes off and never came back.

[userzero]

Why did you take it out in the first place? Did you run a test on it to see if it is in good health?

 

Firstly lookup performing a power drain on the laptop. If this doesn't solve it then see if the laptop is stable by powering it up with the HDD disconnected.

 

Sounds like the HDD is dying/died.

[chiller15]

Does the laptop power on without the HDD connected? If so, then the HDD is causing the issue. If not, then the issue is with something else.

 

Try these troubleshooting options:

 

1) Take out the battery and disconnect the laptop from the mains. Hold the laptop power button for 10 seconds. Reconnect the battery and power and try to boot.

2) Remove the RAM and try to power on. If the laptop has multiple sticks, try swapping the sticks around into the other slots.

[Shannon Chou]

2 minutes ago, userzero said:

Why did you take it out in the first place? Did you run a test on it to see if it is in good health?

 

Firstly lookup performing a power drain on the laptop. If this doesn't solve it then see if the laptop is stable by powering it up with the HDD disconnected.

 

Sounds like the HDD is dying/died.

honestly speaking, i too doubted it before, last night my dad's pc suddenly can't start and the same thing happened. So i took out mine and replaced my dad's, it won't start either, so i put it back to my own laptop. It still works perfectly before i took it out. So if both hdd died, there might be something making the hdd die in my dad's laptop.

[Shannon Chou]

2 minutes ago, chiller15 said:

Does the laptop power on without the HDD connected? If so, then the HDD is causing the issue. If not, then the issue is with something else.

 

Try these troubleshooting options:

 

1) Take out the battery and disconnect the laptop from the mains. Hold the laptop power button for 10 seconds. Reconnect the battery and power and try to boot.

2) Remove the RAM and try to power on. If the laptop has multiple sticks, try swapping the sticks around into the other slots.

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[NelizMastr]

a PC doesn't stop POSTing just because you swapped drives. Something else is wrong here. Sounds more like something shorted.

[Shannon Chou]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

a PC doesn't stop POSTing just because you swapped drives. Something else is wrong here. Sounds more like something shorted.

yes, that's the thing, since its so broad, so what thing might be shorted while i opened up the hdd bay. Because it still works previously when i wake my laptop from sleep and shut it down to take out the drive

[Hugs12343]

13 minutes ago, Shannon Chou said:

RAM: 2GB DDR3 1600 MHz + 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz

It says in your signature that you have 2GB + 8GB of ddr3 ram. Try removing the 2GB.

 

However, I really think that you've bricked your board by shorting something. Looks like you'll have to get a new laptop. Were you grounded when you took your laptop apart? Did you do it over carpet or were you walking on carpet before or at the time of the dissassembly?

 

You could take it to a PC shop though.

 

Does the drive work in a desktop?

[Hugs12343]

I assume that you turned your Laptop off and unplugged the battery before you touched anything else inside.

[userzero]

7 minutes ago, Shannon Chou said:

tried

What exactly happened when you removed the hard drive and powered it on as advised?

[Shannon Chou]

3 minutes ago, Hugs12343 said:

It says in your signature that you have 2GB + 8GB of ddr3 ram. Try removing the 2GB.

 

However, I really think that you've bricked your board by shorting something. Looks like you'll have to get a new laptop. Were you grounded when you took your laptop apart? Did you do it over carpet or were you walking on carpet before or at the time of the dissassembly?

 

You could take it to a PC shop though.

 

Does the drive work in a desktop?

 

1 minute ago, Hugs12343 said:

I assume that you turned your Laptop off and unplugged the battery before you touched anything else inside.

yes, i tried taking out either rams and tested. i'm on ground but its a marble floor and i took out the battery and unplugged it. it will be a huge chunk from my dad's wallet then if both laptop died. so i would like to see if anything can help save it back

[Shannon Chou]

1 minute ago, userzero said:

What exactly happened when you removed the hard drive and powered it on as advised?

okay here's the steps, previously its on sleep, so i wake it up and shutdown, waited it to completely shutdown then took out the battery (as i'm a bit paranoid of statics, i don't like the feel), removed the screws of the cover that only covers the hdd and ram. unscrew and took out the hdd, same thing done on my dads laptop, its just i need to unscrew all the screws from my dad's laptop (different brand). swapped it, screw everything back and turned on dad's laptop. Nothing either, so i went through all the fuss again and unscrew and put it back to my laptop. screw them all back and... uhhh... dead

[userzero]

I'm 

10 minutes ago, Shannon Chou said:

okay here's the steps, previously its on sleep, so i wake it up and shutdown, waited it to completely shutdown then took out the battery (as i'm a bit paranoid of statics, i don't like the feel), removed the screws of the cover that only covers the hdd and ram. unscrew and took out the hdd, same thing done on my dads laptop, its just i need to unscrew all the screws from my dad's laptop (different brand). swapped it, screw everything back and turned on dad's laptop. Nothing either, so i went through all the fuss again and unscrew and put it back to my laptop. screw them all back and... uhhh... dead

Talking about after all this. 

 

What happens now when you turn it on with the hard drive connected. And what happens when you turn it on with it disconnected.

 

If it's stable, look in the BIOS and see if the HDD is detected.

 

When working on laptops, you don't have to put all covers and screws back in if you are troubleshooting it and taking it apart constantly. FYI. Just use common sense.

 

When you connect a hard drive to a laptop etc, you should be using a USB SATA caddy, not swapping it out internally.

[Shannon Chou]

8 minutes ago, userzero said:

I'm 

Talking about after all this. 

 

What happens now when you turn it on with the hard drive connected. And what happens when you turn it on with it disconnected.

 

If it's stable, look in the BIOS and see if the HDD is detected.

 

When working on laptops, you don't have to put all covers and screws back in if you are troubleshooting it and taking it apart constantly. FYI. Just use common sense.

 

When you connect a hard drive to a laptop etc, you should be using a USB SATA caddy, not swapping it out internally.

with drive connected, it shows nothing, i spammed all keys but still can't enter bios. without the drive it shows nothing either.

 

yes i do know that's common sense when screwing all so and that, i just wanted to do it safe

[Shannon Chou]

guys, found the culprit. i changed the rams on 1 slot, i did not check on both the slot, i only checked the ram. so got back to the question, why one of my ram slots got killed? what killed it?

[Hugs12343]

18 minutes ago, Shannon Chou said:

with drive connected, it shows nothing, i spammed all keys but still can't enter bios. without the drive it shows nothing either.

 

yes i do know that's common sense when screwing all so and that, i just wanted to do it safe

Can you hear the fans when you turn it on.

[Hugs12343]

3 minutes ago, Shannon Chou said:

guys, found the culprit. i changed the rams on 1 slot, i did not check on both the slot, i only checked the ram. so got back to the question, why one of my ram slots got killed? what killed it?

I was right this whole time

 

52 minutes ago, Hugs12343 said:

It says in your signature that you have 2GB + 8GB of ddr3 ram. Try removing the 2GB.

 

[Shannon Chou]

2 minutes ago, Hugs12343 said:

I was right this whole time

 

 

thank you very much, i only thought of the ram, u can say that i panicked and did not check on the slot

now checking on my dad's laptop

[Hugs12343]

1 minute ago, Shannon Chou said:

thank you very much, i only thought of the ram, u can say that i panicked and did not check on the slot

Why did you touch the ram. Also make sure you mark this thread solved

[Shannon Chou]

Just now, Hugs12343 said:

Why did you touch the ram. Also make sure you mark this thread solved

how to mark as solved? i used my reply as answer

[Hugs12343]

You've done it.