scott schrieb:
> No it's not a Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens actually.
> 
> 95% of the time you press the power button and the fans spin up to 
> maximum, but that's all (no display, no VGA output, no beeps, no hard 
> drive spin-up, nothing).   It will turn off if you hold down the power 
> button for 5 seconds, so something is working.
> 
> 5% of the time it will boot normally (the fans immediately go to low 
> power mode once the BIOS screen appears).  However if you gently tap the 
> computer it immediately turns off and goes back to the 95% behaviour.
> 
> I tried taking out the RAM, but same as above, except for the 5% of the 
> time it will give a beepy error code (I assume for "no RAM").
> 
> I've already taken this one apart before to re-solder the AC socket (a 
> long time ago), so I was planning to open it up again and check all 
> connectors. I suspect it could be the CPU, I have no idea how these are 
> attached to the main-board in laptops but I'll see if I can re-seat it 
> or something.
> 
> Any other ideas while I have it open tonight?  Does the 95% behaviour 
> sound like what happens if you try to boot with no CPU?
> 
> 

I have a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop at work and I can tell you the the 
motherboards die regulary. I had a similar behaviour. In the end it 
didn't boot.

Marc

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