Re: HOW DOES A LAPTOP MOTHER BOARD GET FRIED ?

I'll give this a try. Do you happen to know how I
can test
the battery to see if it's still good or not?

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"Bubey" <catlovr2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I read an article where it says if the laptop
shows sign of life
the Motherboard hasn't been fried and one needs
to
do a
Bios re-set or upgrade. A Tech mentioned the
Bios
re-set
but didn't seem to be able to give me the answer
on how to
do it if I couldn't get anything on the screen.
Any ideas?


Not sure if this is the type of "reset" you are
looking for, but I have
worked on a Sony Viao notebook computer, and in
order to access the BIOS,
you would need to hit "F2" (probably a number of
times) during the opening
logo screen when you first boot. From inside the
BIOS, you should find
something similar to "load default settings", or
perhaps, "Load fail-safe
settings". Pick that, Save and Exit, and see if
that works for you...

I'll tell you right now, if you are able to get
into the BIOS, or even see
the opening logo screen, then the MB is certainly
not fried...

I have repaired units before that acted funny, and
this was due to the
customer having spilled something onto the laptop,
even a little bit, and
having it leak down onto the MB. The laptop I
repaired recently worked fine
except that it wouldn't charge the battery, and
the screen flashed (bright
to dim and back), which I'm sure was related to
the power saving feature
found in all laptops that varies the brightness of
the LCD depending on if
it's plugged in or running on batteries.


.

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