Best answer:

Answer by Menace
Have you tried it in a different USB port? If it keeps re-detecting, it could be a bad USB port.

Give your answer to this question below!

Here are some things that should help anyone reading this where I’m at:
-Laptop will not turn on (battery currently in it is discharged)
-Laptop will turn on when my spare battery is in it (but neither battery will charge).
- AC power adapter voltage confirmed (at the tip of the connector) 18.5 VDC output via multimeter and oscilloscope but voltage is not reaching AC power indicator LED (wiggling the connector does not make it flash).
- If 18.5 VDC is spliced into the charging cable from an external (HP E3631A) power supply, there is still no voltage reaching the AC power indicator LED (again, wiggling has no visible effect). No current is being drawn from the HP power supply.

-There is continuity from the black ground/negative wire of the power jack of the laptop (and from the stripped and exposed AC adapter cable) to one of the terminals in the battery compartment.
-There is NO continuity from the red positive wire of the power jack of the laptop (and from the stripped and exposed AC adapter cable) to one of the terminals in the battery compartment (not sure if there actually should be – perhaps this connection is normally open until the power button is pressed and the laptop turns on).

Does anyone have any ideas before I open it up and start looking inside? I can’t think of anything else to do but I’m hesitant to take that step.

By the way, I have multimeters, waveform generators, oscilloscopes, and adjustable power supplies available for use while troubleshooting. I’ve spent the last 8 years of my life working in radio maintenance so I can likely understand anything regarding electronics that you tell me, I just haven’t spent much time working on computers (nor do I have an advanced troubleshooting guide for this) so I need help here. Thanks in advance!
One more thing: I have a docking station that allows the power cable (and just about anything else) to be routed to a different (80? pin rectangular) jack on the bottom. Using this route of applying power to the laptop instead of the standard power jack produces the same result. Thus, I conclude that the power jack of the laptop is not broken since it can be bypassed with the same result (whether I power it with the standard AC adapter or the external power supply).
————————————————————

Thanks for the response. I tried reseating both memory chips – no change.

Since the computer does turn on and boots normally to windows xp with my charged spare battery (except that it refuses to charge batteries that are placed in it), I’m guessing that the problem lies elsewhere.

My guess is that something is broken/defective at the internal unit that accepts the external DC voltage and distributes it to other needed sections (like whatever component outputs the charging voltage to the battery).

I don’t have a schematic to follow the path myself and (although I have the keyboard removed now and I can see some of the innards), I’m hesitant to start pulling everything apart until I have a bit more focus and direction.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Best answer:

Answer by AjaxManatiso
Have lots of experience with HPs including your model. First step is to reseat the memory — one in the bottom compartment and one under the keyboard. For the one under the keyboard — remove the screws from the bottom with the keyboard icon next to them and then slide the plastic tabs between the F keys toward you and it will lift up from the unit. That model will act like it has no electricity at all if any of the DIMMs are even slightly out of line.

Give your answer to this question below!

Best answer:

Answer by Lulu
You should call the company of the printer. They will always help you out,

What do you think? Answer below!

Best answer:

Answer by Barthier
did you meet the standard requirements of the game?
make sure you did

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Best answer:

Answer by Alann
The startup repair sometimes showsup if the laptop didnt get shutdown properly or if it restarted abnormally. If you are sure there’s nothing wrong with your Windows, you can just select Windows during the loadup process. (It should give an option between Launch Startup Repair & Load Windows Normally). If the Windows opens up without any problems, startup repair wont start again the next time you start your laptop.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Best answer:

Answer by renzara_ph
Hi,

If your laptop is running on Windows 7, click on the wireless network icon and run Network Troubleshoot – it provides relevant information and some solutions to issues with network connectivity.

Generally though this sort of problem is usually solved by turning off your router and modem. Wait for 10 seconds before turning on the modem, then the router.

Hope this helps.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Best answer:

Answer by Iran Tabligh
i need more information about your configuration.

the best thing is to click on troubleshoot and see what it will respond.

there might be a lot of thing that can cause this problem.

Give your answer to this question below!

I do virus and malware check pretty much daily and all that is coming up fine now. However, I wanted to find out 1.) what I need to do to find out what is causing this blue screen error, and how I can fix it. Also, I want to find out 2.) if there is a way to retrieve those files and/or programs that I lost from the virus. Finally, I wanted recommendation on a good program I can download for free that can help pinpoint future issues like this and/or help me determine what I could do to improve the efficiency of the computer.

Best answer:

Answer by niks
first of get a nice anti virus licensed cause everything free is not good
if ur using win 7 then u have a option fr recovery and bout the blue screen also known as BSD(Blue screen of death) causing u to restart ur lappy then
see if you have a hardware problem,
like a hard drive going bad or a video card driver problem the reason you’re computer is freezing or crashing is because of registry errors.
this is biggest cause of problems like slow start up,
shutdowns, blue screen error, slow applications and a general lack of computer performance.

Add your own answer in the comments!

I need help… What do I need to do ???

Best answer:

Answer by Bob
connect to a monitor and see if you get a picture if so the back light or inverter is bad. you get up close and look you may have a very dark picture.

Add your own answer in the comments!

PS: Im running Win7 64 bit. TY
the sound card still works because when i plug in my headphones i can listen to music and i just got this a 2 years ago

Best answer:

Answer by nosdda
Maybe the sound card needs replacing

Give your answer to this question below!