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From: Al on 20 Apr 2010 17:50
I dropped my Advent 5401 a couple of weeks ago - only from about a foot
above a carpeted floor. Ever since then, I have had increasingly bad
problems. The laptop started powering off unexpectedly. Sometimes it
would freeze up. Sometimes I'd get the blue screen. After powering
itself off, it would sometimes take many attemts to get it to boot up.
These symptoms got prgressively worse; now I can't get it to boot at
all.

My local computer repair shop said the hard drive is OK. He tride
removing and replacing the ram chips but it made no difference. He said
I might have damaged the motherboard.

Is there anthing else I might try, before resigning myself to an
expensive repair job?

Many thanks,

Al


From: Barry Watzman on 21 Apr 2010 00:00
I would remove and completely remount the CPU and fan/heatsink.


Al wrote:
> I dropped my Advent 5401 a couple of weeks ago - only from about a foot
> above a carpeted floor. Ever since then, I have had increasingly bad
> problems. The laptop started powering off unexpectedly. Sometimes it
> would freeze up. Sometimes I'd get the blue screen. After powering
> itself off, it would sometimes take many attemts to get it to boot up.
> These symptoms got prgressively worse; now I can't get it to boot at all.
>
> My local computer repair shop said the hard drive is OK. He tride
> removing and replacing the ram chips but it made no difference. He said
> I might have damaged the motherboard.
>
> Is there anthing else I might try, before resigning myself to an
> expensive repair job?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Al
>
>
From: Don Phillipson on 20 Apr 2010 19:28
"Al" <wasaol(a)aanotes.com> wrote in message
news:mn.a55a7da474cc3e76.112874(a)aanotes.com...

> I dropped my Advent 5401 a couple of weeks ago - only from about a foot
> above a carpeted floor. Ever since then, I have had increasingly bad
> problems. The laptop started powering off unexpectedly. Sometimes it
> would freeze up. Sometimes I'd get the blue screen. After powering
> itself off, it would sometimes take many attemts to get it to boot up.
> These symptoms got prgressively worse; now I can't get it to boot at all.
>
> My local computer repair shop said the hard drive is OK. He tride
> removing and replacing the ram chips but it made no difference. He said
> I might have damaged the motherboard.
>
> Is there anthing else I might try, before resigning myself to an
> expensive repair job?

Since the hard drive is OK, get a new laptop and transfer the HD
contents into it (via USB from a Samba drive case if needed.)
Once any motherboard has been flexed more than a couple
of millimetres almost any component is likely to fail (think of the
small size of those components and solder joints). Adding
together the high dollar cost and low peace of mind (low
expectations of reliability) it is seldom worth repairing a
laptop known to be faulty.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


From: Bob Villa on 21 Apr 2010 07:53
>Barry wrote:
>I would remove and completely remount the CPU and fan/heatsink.

Barry has a good point...over-heating!

bob
From: BillW50 on 21 Apr 2010 19:04
In news:hqmmut$8a$2(a)theodyn.ncf.ca,
Don Phillipson typed on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:24:21 -0500:
[...]
> Once any motherboard has been flexed more than a couple
> of millimetres almost any component is likely to fail (think of the
> small size of those components and solder joints)...

I think you would be surprised Don. For example, these Asus EeePC
netbooks you have to flex the motherboard to get it in and out of the
lower clam shell. And I don't know anybody who lost a motherboard yet
during this process. And there are hundreds if not thousand of EeePC
users on the forum over there.

I don't know anybody who lost a motherboard with a laptop either by
flexing them either. Granted it is pretty hard to do while they are in
assembled laptop. I guess some have claimed that some laptops are so
flimsy that the motherboard can flex. Are these the ones you are
referring too?

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2 (quit Windows updates back in May 2009)



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