Asus laptop won't start

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AN

My 3 year old ASUS A7M wide screen laptop won't start.
When pushing the button it appears to start up for 3 sec and then
immeadiately shuts down. Vista is not close to start up. Pushing F-keys
while starting doesn't do anything. The screen stays black without a
single digit. The only thing I hear is a fan starting and a click.
What can I do?
 
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John Wunderlich

My 3 year old ASUS A7M wide screen laptop won't start.
When pushing the button it appears to start up for 3 sec and then
immeadiately shuts down. Vista is not close to start up. Pushing
F-keys while starting doesn't do anything. The screen stays black
without a single digit. The only thing I hear is a fan starting
and a click. What can I do?

Charge the battery.
Make sure your charger is working.

-- John
 
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SC Tom

AN said:
My 3 year old ASUS A7M wide screen laptop won't start.
When pushing the button it appears to start up for 3 sec and then
immeadiately shuts down. Vista is not close to start up. Pushing F-keys
while starting doesn't do anything. The screen stays black without a
single digit. The only thing I hear is a fan starting and a click.
What can I do?

Does it do the same when plugged in? Can you be sure the AC adaptor is good,
and/or the battery is charged?
After you hear the 'click,' does the fan continue to run? If so, it very
well may be a bad hard drive.
 
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VanguardLH

AN said:
My 3 year old ASUS A7M wide screen laptop won't start. When pushing
the button it appears to start up for 3 sec and then immeadiately
shuts down. Vista is not close to start up. Pushing F-keys while
starting doesn't do anything. The screen stays black without a single
digit. The only thing I hear is a fan starting and a click. What can
I do?

Go see replies in the other newsgroups to which you MULTI-posted the
SAME message. Because you did not cross-post means you will have to
track replies in every newsgroup to which you separately multi-posted.
Cross-post so respondents don't end up duplicating what others have
already said. Learn to cross-post:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

Since the OS is not coming up or even getting loaded, this is not an
appropriate newsgroup for your problem. It isn't an OS issue because
the OS isn't even getting loaded. You have a hardware problem. Go look
at replies to your post in the hardware groups to which you multi-
posted.
 
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Stefan Patric

My 3 year old ASUS A7M wide screen laptop won't start. When pushing the
button it appears to start up for 3 sec and then immeadiately shuts
down. Vista is not close to start up. Pushing F-keys while starting
doesn't do anything. The screen stays black without a single digit. The
only thing I hear is a fan starting and a click. What can I do?

Remove the battery and hook up the A/C power supply, power up and
see if you can get into BIOS: Press and hold the Delete key (sometimes
it's the Esc instead). If you get no display or the system continues to
quit after 3 secs., you probably have a hardware problem.

Also, you can try to boot from any Windows Install CD or a Linux LiveCD.
If neither will work, then most likely it's hardware. Contact Asus
Customer Service, first, before going to a computer repair tech.

Stef
 

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