Laptop troubles

[kenney001]

I have posted something similar before...but here we go again.
I have a Gateway Mx6920 laptop.

-It randomly hangs on startup.
-It sometimes hangs before loading bios, at the black screen
-It sometimes hangs in the middle of loading windows (the slider going across)
-It hanged when I was in the bios menu.
-It hanged while inside windows(blue-screened out and shut down)
-When It decides to hang, it will keep doing this for numerous reboot attempts afterwords.
-When It hangs, the cd drive repeatedly makes a locking sound that It usually makes when the computer first gets the signal to start up, it its like its repeatedly trying to start up, but screen stays the same and nothing happens.
-It was working fine a few days ago, and no nothing has changed. It just started doing it.
-It did it before then a couple weeks ago.


I have tried replacing the ram.
I have tried a new HD
I have ripped it apart, and cleaned everything
i have re-flashed the bios with an updated version
It's not overheating


What the hell is it???? sometimes it works flawlessly, and others it does this....

[Zeph]

Poor motherboard.

[Bastinka]

Vista or XP?
Try reinstalling the OS / Reformatting.

[kenney001]

its a fresh install of vista. Did it on last as well.....Im hoping its not a bad mobo because a new one costs 4x what i payed for the damn thing...

[Zeph]

You're pretty much screwed. I would never buy a Gateway, HP, etc. notebook just because they're soo cheaply made.

[kenney001]

Wll if that be the case, i have a working mobo for an mx6025 notebook (mine is the mx6920) and they look the same.....Im thinking all laptops of this series use same motherboards. Think I can exchange them?

[Patrickssj6]

How are both mobos called?

[kenney001]

I couldn't pass up a deal for $100

[kenney001]

alright recently I have failed to get it to even load windows....at all.

Now I had already tried different ram, and using only 1 stick, etc. I have removed all non-vital hardware including the HD. Still did it.

Now I move the 1 stick i have in it, to the other slot. Starts up no problem. Rebooted no problem. Still running without problems.
Excuse me while i piss myself with joy, and then run up to frys to grab a 2-gig single stick.....

[Wakeboy1337]

So it was a bad ram slot?

Try making sure the ram is going into that slot all the way and make sure that the slot is extremely clean.

[itszutak]

Ah yes. Ram has to be in the correct slot to run properly, and if one stick dies, the computer will act like it did when you started it up.

Has anyone else noticed a decrease in the lifetime of RAM? I've had 2 sticks die so far (in different machines) :/

[kenney001]

Nevermind. It was working before i left for frys. I came home, powered it up (without touching anything yet) and it screws up again.

I then proceeded to rip out everything other than the CPU and MOBO (wireless, HDD, RAM, CD drive, battary) and the issue continued. I think its a faulty mobo, which sucks ass because a new one is $400.

[kenney001]

NeverMind to that. I swapped out the HD for an older one i had and reinstalled vista. Im surprised it made it to the loading screen. However, it hasn't given me any problems yet, and ive isntalled video, audio, flashplayer, firefox, disabled UAC, and even ran "tskill *" to force a blue-screen shutdown and it recovered fine. I have rebooted 5 times and i am running orthos (drives memory and cpu up to 100%) and its been going for 10 minutes.

I hope this is it......of course thats what happened when i messed with ram slots....................


lets pray for it.

[kenney001]

damn it...............