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Advent Laptop 7111
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Hi, bought another laptop off eBay which was I received today with the fault as described - power/mobo lights come on as normal but cpu fan stays on high speed and nothing is displayed on the LCD, no POST or boot into bios.
I tried external monitor, nothing, removed all peripherals such as wifi card /dvd/ram etc and also removed LCD connections and still had same problem.
Now I thought I'd try and check the CPU (Core Duo 1.6Ghz) and noticed that there was no thermal pad/compound on there just the CPU fitting into a recessed heatsink slot! The graphics chip has a pad covering it on the heatsink so my question is - could the CPU be fried?
If you could inform me this might be the case then I've got a spare working chip compatible for me to verify. Thanks.
ps. I can rule out a dodgy power supply as i'm using one to power my 7206 which has same power ratings.
I tried external monitor, nothing, removed all peripherals such as wifi card /dvd/ram etc and also removed LCD connections and still had same problem.
Now I thought I'd try and check the CPU (Core Duo 1.6Ghz) and noticed that there was no thermal pad/compound on there just the CPU fitting into a recessed heatsink slot! The graphics chip has a pad covering it on the heatsink so my question is - could the CPU be fried?
If you could inform me this might be the case then I've got a spare working chip compatible for me to verify. Thanks.
ps. I can rule out a dodgy power supply as i'm using one to power my 7206 which has same power ratings.
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Without physical access to the machine, we can't tell but it doesn't sound good. If you've got a spare chip why not just swap them out?
Seriously, did you really need to ask?0
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