Question Getac B300H - wont start

[Bnorm]

I have had this laptop sitting on a shelf for a couple of years now and decided to try and get it going. It wont start. I have been told that it is exhibiting signs of needing a new cmos battery. I opened it up to what is needed but cant see one anywhere. Its possible that it may be on the other side of the motherboard.

Can anyone confirm if this unit has a cmos battery and if so, where it is.

Many thanks in anticipation.

 

[Desire1503]

It does have a CMOS battery, and yes, it's on the other side of the motherboard. Does any LED's light up when you plug in the charger?

 

[Bnorm]

Thanks for your reply. Online I found a video of someone removing a plate underneath the keyboard. Sure enough I spotted the cmos battery under there. I have replaced the battery but this has not helped much. Just as before I changed the battery, I can sometimes get it to start booting up but after a few seconds all LED's will go off. Sometimes to be replaced with a flashing amber battery LED.

Just once this morning it fully booted up into windows. I left it just running for a few minutes then switched it off to see if it would start up again. It didn't. Several more attempts have also failed.


To answer your question - With the laptop switched off, if I plug in the charger the battery LED turns on steady amber.

A possible clue. Often when I press the start button the left hand green LED (near the handle) will come on, along with the 2nd green LED indicator from the left of the row near the hinge. This is not the hard disk access indicator, its the one to the right of that. Its symbol is a tiny rectangle with what might be a small arrow pointing left. Very hard to tell, its so small.

The fact that it did just once fully bootup into windows gives me hope but there is still clearly something wrong.

Any ideas?