Hey guys, first a little history of the problem I'm having.
I got this Lenovo Ideapad z500 over 4 years ago, and around the third year of me owning it, a piece of debris got stuck in the fan, no problem, removed it and carried on as normal. Then a second problem arose a few months after, the computer display would not show when I pressed the power button, turned out to be a faulty RAM stick as when I tried with just the 4GB stick it worked flawlessly. It was fine for 6 months. A few days ago, the same problem started happening and the computer has worked intermittently since. Leaving it around 30 mins or so without trying to power it on sometimes allows it to turn on and proceed operation normally. When it works, there are no performance issues or anything out of the ordinary. Battery charges perfectly and holds it very well. However currently I've been unable to get it running for 2 hours. I've disassembled it yet again and tried removing the battery and holding power for 60 seconds, to no avail. I tried removing and reseating the RAM numerous times, to no avail. When I start it up the fan spins, the DVD drive and hdd come on, no lights to the keyboard though although I'm not sure if this is due to the fault. Gonna leave it be and it may work again in the future but I'm just wondering what you guys think this is? I know it's an old laptop but it's annoying to bin it as when it does work it's flawless without fail. Also money is tight so can't really afford to replace it and I need it for school. One very important thing, when I plug and unplug the charger while attempting to start it, it beeps once for a short time each time I perform this action. Any ideas what this means? Surely if the RAM was faulty the computer would never work right? And when it is on it would not be flawless? Honestly stumped by this one, been fixing computers for years but just not sure really. Thanks for your help as always guys appreciate it
Specs:
Lenovo Ideapad Z500
Intel i5 3230M
6GB RAM (Now 4 after mishap)
1TB HDD
Disk drive
1366x768 15.6 screen.
I got this Lenovo Ideapad z500 over 4 years ago, and around the third year of me owning it, a piece of debris got stuck in the fan, no problem, removed it and carried on as normal. Then a second problem arose a few months after, the computer display would not show when I pressed the power button, turned out to be a faulty RAM stick as when I tried with just the 4GB stick it worked flawlessly. It was fine for 6 months. A few days ago, the same problem started happening and the computer has worked intermittently since. Leaving it around 30 mins or so without trying to power it on sometimes allows it to turn on and proceed operation normally. When it works, there are no performance issues or anything out of the ordinary. Battery charges perfectly and holds it very well. However currently I've been unable to get it running for 2 hours. I've disassembled it yet again and tried removing the battery and holding power for 60 seconds, to no avail. I tried removing and reseating the RAM numerous times, to no avail. When I start it up the fan spins, the DVD drive and hdd come on, no lights to the keyboard though although I'm not sure if this is due to the fault. Gonna leave it be and it may work again in the future but I'm just wondering what you guys think this is? I know it's an old laptop but it's annoying to bin it as when it does work it's flawless without fail. Also money is tight so can't really afford to replace it and I need it for school. One very important thing, when I plug and unplug the charger while attempting to start it, it beeps once for a short time each time I perform this action. Any ideas what this means? Surely if the RAM was faulty the computer would never work right? And when it is on it would not be flawless? Honestly stumped by this one, been fixing computers for years but just not sure really. Thanks for your help as always guys appreciate it
Specs:
Lenovo Ideapad Z500
Intel i5 3230M
6GB RAM (Now 4 after mishap)
1TB HDD
Disk drive
1366x768 15.6 screen.
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