- Oct 11, 2013
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Hey all,
I've posted about this issue previously, but it appeared that the issue worked itself out. Unfortunately, it's back, and I need some help. For context, I'm having the problem on a Lenovo Y40 (not that old of a machine). I recently replaced the battery (it didn't hold a charge) and I swapped out the HDD for an SSD. Machine ran great and speedy until it would randomly not let me turn it on. I can hit the power button when the battery has full charge, and nothing happens. When I pull out the battery, and attempt to just run off wall power, it also will not power on. My inclination is that it's a short somewhere in the machine; if that's the case, I'm not even sure where to begin looking. I thought maybe the laptop was just completely dead, but occasionally it'll turn on! One another detail, sometimes when I can get it to boot, after a few minutes the backlight will turn off. If I look really close, I can see that the laptop is still running fine, but the screen backlight just shut off. I'm a computer science major in school, and I really can't afford another laptop right now (but it's sorta necessary that I have one). If I could get this fixed, it save me a LOT of headache. Any ideas?
Thanks everyone,
Kyndle
I've posted about this issue previously, but it appeared that the issue worked itself out. Unfortunately, it's back, and I need some help. For context, I'm having the problem on a Lenovo Y40 (not that old of a machine). I recently replaced the battery (it didn't hold a charge) and I swapped out the HDD for an SSD. Machine ran great and speedy until it would randomly not let me turn it on. I can hit the power button when the battery has full charge, and nothing happens. When I pull out the battery, and attempt to just run off wall power, it also will not power on. My inclination is that it's a short somewhere in the machine; if that's the case, I'm not even sure where to begin looking. I thought maybe the laptop was just completely dead, but occasionally it'll turn on! One another detail, sometimes when I can get it to boot, after a few minutes the backlight will turn off. If I look really close, I can see that the laptop is still running fine, but the screen backlight just shut off. I'm a computer science major in school, and I really can't afford another laptop right now (but it's sorta necessary that I have one). If I could get this fixed, it save me a LOT of headache. Any ideas?
Thanks everyone,
Kyndle
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