Will_i_am

Hello,

I have a Advent qt 5500 laptop which has had a problem from day one,
it was bought through a clearing house and has no warranty.

So here it is, the machine powers on, hard drive light flashes and then
nothing, no image on screen no boot sequence nothing.

Things I've looked at- hard drive, plugged it into my pc and is seen
by the motherboard and it even tried to boot vista (for the first time, which it said) but when it realized it was in the wrong computer it gave up.

Dvd ejects on the laptop and when I put a disk in lights up as what u might expect but then no more activity.

Plugged an external monitor still no screen, pressed all the F buttons
on start up, took the battery out, held down the on button, and tried various combinations with things in and out, except memory will try that next!

So has anyone got ideas about what might be wrong here? I thought
that if there was a hardware issue one might at least get into bios? or maybe it is the bios that's the problem if so is that a big job to sort out

Anywho, some guidance here will be very much appreciated!

Cheers!

Will.

dai

if you received a manual with it check how to reset the cmos,and reset it

Will_i_am

Hi there,

Yeah I had a look at the manual but nothing on reseting cmos, I read somewhere that taking the battery out would do this so I'll give that a go!
only the sucker is buried deep inside this laptop so might be a while locating it.

Cheers,

dai

http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID={3d7b1ece-2754-4700-8947-3fce9beebcee}&CatID={88f248d6-a456-483b-a8f3-680bd77e6c62}
the only post i could find was on a different model and the battery was located beneath the cpu h/sink

Will_i_am

well that's a crazy place to put a battery if you ask me, but so far I can't find it, I can see a lot of the goings on but nothing that looks like a battery
I'll have a look at the cpu area I guess.

Will_i_am

Ok had a look there, no cigar! Everything looks in good order too. Brand new basically.

Will_i_am

Had a look at that link to the techguys and found the right model but help from them looks limited.. still haven't a clue where the battery is?

dai

some laptops it's under the keyboard
those techguys charge like a wounded bull

powerpack

Why are you booting off a OS disk not for that computer? Did it not come with one? when you say boot into BIOS, are you pressing the F2 or whatever key to get in? The fact that your system is looking for things (hardware working) and not finding and refusing to work sounds like a software non BIOS issue to me. What can you do? I don't know, pay for a new copy of windows. Or to save money and confirm the problem install a free OS like a linnux flavor tou rule out hardware BIOS.

Will_i_am

Dai,

Definitely, not under the keyboard there's nothing that immediately stands
out as battery, it's become a matter of curiosity now, I MUST LOCATE
BATTERY!! somebody please help!!

Just to clarify, the Laptop did come with a hard disk with an os installed,
it would power HD would flash on but then no action on screen or disk activity, I took the disk out and plugged into my PC to see if it was working and seemed so.

At any rate, provided there's no hardware faults I should be able to
get into bios with things unplugged, unless there something wrong with the bios it self, which is why I'm trying to see if this battery thing will do anything! I not an expert but I need expert advice..

Cheers,

Will_i_am

Make that, I think yes it is under the keyboard in the area to the right of
mouse pad, right next to this copper plate thing that's stuck with sticky tape? the battery is shrink wrapped in green plastic and connected to the mobo via black and red wires, it has a number 1206 on it, does anybody know say for instance if the battery was dead would this affect the laptop from booting? Anyway unplugged now and will wait a while, test it for voltage and reassemble. I'm treating this laptop like it's just any other desktop PC if I'm wrong about this please let me know..

Will_i_am

Well, did the battery thing, but no joy, so I guess I've reached the end of
my laptop adventure as I have no way to test any of the other components. Thanks for the help anyways..at least I found the battery!!

Cheers!