Laptop wont boot, no display

[silent_wolf]

My friend gave me his fathers laptop to look at. Its a Lenovo ideapad s10, when I power it on the screen is completely black.

Nothing no POST screen nothing, I tried connecting a monitor to it, nothing. I have removed the ram and hdd and still nothing not even a beep from the motherboard, tried removing the battery for a while still nothing, I'm not sure what else to try. I'm thinking the gpu is dead cause I can hear all the other hardware spinning up just no display. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Grouter]

Considering it's age, I'd let it die peacefully. It plainly wants to.

 

[mintydroid]

Take out hard drive put it in a case and start copying.

 

[Grouter]

Take out hard drive put it in a case and start copying.

+1

 

[silent_wolf]

Thanks guys, I thought it was going to come to that

 

[mintydroid]

Thanks guys, I thought it was going to come to that

My Acer had that problem which is common on them. No matter what I tried I couldn't fix it. I've just taken out hard drive, ram sticks and wifi card to reuse.

 

[absynth]

My Acer had that problem which is common on them. No matter what I tried I couldn't fix it. I've just taken out hard drive, ram sticks and wifi card to reuse.

I also had an Acer,but the Aspire One that did the whole blank screen when pressing power.After lots of research I found out that it was the BIOS that was corrupted.Got instructions to load BIOS file to a flash drive and with a certain key combination one could reflash the BIOS.

Don't know if there is anything like that for Lenovo though.

http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3088/~/aspire-one-a110-%2F-a150-powers-on-but-the-screen-remains-blank

This is the link for the Acer though.See if you can find something similar for your Lenovo model?

 

[gregmcc]

Put it to good use

[video=youtube;7Q3PY6OzS4Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q3PY6OzS4Y[/video]

 

[Priapus]

Get the rifle ready and take it out back.

 

[Sonic2k]

File #13

 

[mintydroid]

I also had an Acer,but the Aspire One that did the whole blank screen when pressing power.After lots of research I found out that it was the BIOS that was corrupted.Got instructions to load BIOS file to a flash drive and with a certain key combination one could reflash the BIOS.

Don't know if there is anything like that for Lenovo though.

http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3088/~/aspire-one-a110-%2F-a150-powers-on-but-the-screen-remains-blank

This is the link for the Acer though.See if you can find something similar for your Lenovo model?

Didn't work for me

 

[oldhat]

Try this: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo...ooks/HOWTO-BIOS-recovery-on-S10-2/td-p/176976

 

[silent_wolf]

Try this: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo...ooks/HOWTO-BIOS-recovery-on-S10-2/td-p/176976

Thanks will give it a try, I think its an s10-3 though but its not like I can break it

 

[absynth]

Try this: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo...ooks/HOWTO-BIOS-recovery-on-S10-2/td-p/176976

Same principle as the Acer fix that worked for me.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Try this: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo...ooks/HOWTO-BIOS-recovery-on-S10-2/td-p/176976

Hmm - handy .... will keep that for a rainy day or a laptop that doesnt boot up.

 

[sajunky]

My Acer had that problem which is common on them. No matter what I tried I couldn't fix it. I've just taken out hard drive, ram sticks and wifi card to reuse.

WiFi module is b/g. One 'b/g' on the network will slow down all your 'n' devices.

@OP Check if your power supply is operational. Battery could be already flat. Also try with battery removed.