A family members asus x55 laptop worked fine after he cleaned it up, but the next day the computer only showed a black screen after attempting to boot it
There's no way i can enter anything (Bios, boot menu) or get past it. the leds for the hdd and capslock work fine) but it just seems to be stuck. I went over the basic things like:
Swapping ram from my working laptop.
Chaning the CMOS battery(it worked fine but i resetted it this way aswell and made sure it wont go dry anytime soon.
No battery, only DC input. Neither and holding and pressing the power button for longer than 2 minutes. i even removed the HDD, Wifi card and everything else exept the CPU ofcourse and ram. Noting worked.
I searched every forum thread, DIY page and even visited these dodgy tech support sides to no avail. I read about removing all power sources, and holding the power button but this did not work for me after trying it several times.
I can only guess now that the bios got corrupted, presumably by a virus. I tought my only changes were to RMA or attempt to fix it using a jtag if they actually still exist. Or some other form of flashing the BIOS.
I hope someone here knows a solution.
Cannot check the specs since it's not accessable and there as several variations of this thing but i know it has a pentium processor, 2/4 gigs of ram and its roughly 1/2 years old.
There's no way i can enter anything (Bios, boot menu) or get past it. the leds for the hdd and capslock work fine) but it just seems to be stuck. I went over the basic things like:
Swapping ram from my working laptop.
Chaning the CMOS battery(it worked fine but i resetted it this way aswell and made sure it wont go dry anytime soon.
No battery, only DC input. Neither and holding and pressing the power button for longer than 2 minutes. i even removed the HDD, Wifi card and everything else exept the CPU ofcourse and ram. Noting worked.
I searched every forum thread, DIY page and even visited these dodgy tech support sides to no avail. I read about removing all power sources, and holding the power button but this did not work for me after trying it several times.
I can only guess now that the bios got corrupted, presumably by a virus. I tought my only changes were to RMA or attempt to fix it using a jtag if they actually still exist. Or some other form of flashing the BIOS.
I hope someone here knows a solution.
Cannot check the specs since it's not accessable and there as several variations of this thing but i know it has a pentium processor, 2/4 gigs of ram and its roughly 1/2 years old.