Asus S550C Black Illuminated Screen, No BIOS, NO POST, Trouble booting

[msiadler]

Hello,

My Asus S550C laptop is having trouble getting to POST and booting. The hard drive, I have noticed, will power up and then wind down and remain doing nothing, as will the laptop which will continue to run a black, backlit screen, as well as all fans, lights, and the CD drive, but no hard drive, no BIOS boot.

It powers on, there are lights and fans, I can open the CD drive and it will attempt to load a disk, I can even see my screen backlit.
In fact, I can even press and hold F2 while pressing the power button and reach the BIOS settings and see them displayed on my laptop clearly, so it's definitely not the screen or graphics. I HAVE attempted to clear CMOS through the BIOS settings.

I have tried removing the battery and holding down the power button to do the hard reset thing. No luck. I plugged in my laptop while leaving the battery out and attempted to boot that way. No luck. Power does not seem to be the issue.

There is nothing in the CD drive and nothing in the USB drives that would be affecting startup, as I have removed all of it.

I also attempted reseating the RAM and Hard Drive, but was hesitant to unscrew and open the laptop further to reseat anything else.

I can't tell at this point if this is a software or hardware issue anymore. This is a troublesome laptop that started as a Windows 8 and got worse with each Windows OS update. It's now on Windows 10 and every day it seems to have a new issue. I do intend to get a new laptop, but I'd like to be able to get this one back to running again in the meantime.

Cheers!

 

[webworkings]

Try these...


Option 1 ...

1. First, while the computer is off, connect an external monitor.
2. Next turn on the computer and allow it to fully load.
3. Once loaded, press the "Windows Key" + "P" to open the "Easy Display Switcher".
4. In here select "Computer only".
5. Now shut down the computer and disconnect the external monitor.
5. Disconnect the external monitor
6. And finally restart the computer.


Option 2 ...

Make sure you wait until the computer would be fully loaded before trying this, and not try it right away like you would to say get into BIOS. This needs you to actually be where you would be when Windows Explorer loads.

1. Press "Shift" repeatedly until the "sticky keys" window shows up.

2. Now click the the link there that will lead to the "Ease of Access Center".

3. Next click "Cancel" on the the bottom right corner of the "Set Up Sticky Keys" window.

4. From here you want to click "Control Panel" on the upper left corner (it should be right beside the "Make Your Computer Easier to Use" title.

5. Locate the "Computer Settings" menu and then choose the "Recovery" icon (make sure that your view of this is by either large or small icons for easier access).

6. Now click and open "System Restore".

7. Here you want to click next on the bottom right corner (a few times) until the button "Finish" shows up and then click it. (Just follow everything prompt that the window says which will lead you to recovering your previous system, in a certain time.

8. The computer will now do the work it needs to and then reboot.


If that doesn't work, you can try the following...

You can also try doing the Ctrl+Alt+Delete and see if you can get "Task Manager" to show.


If the "Task Manager" windows shows, then choose "New Task" and then type in EXPLORER. If the desktop shows up then you need to go into "Start", "Programs", then "Accessories" and finally "Command Prompt". (Or you can do a search for CMD.)

Make sure you load the "Command Prompt" with Administrator access. Then when it loads type in....

SFC /SCANNOW

It will do a file check.

To learn more about "SFC" visit this link at Microsoft... https/support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833