[mdlug] Laptop Hardware issues

[Michael Rudas]

> --- Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
>> The problem: Upon power up a more or less normal POST seems to start,
>> but the display never lights, and after about 12 seconds it powers off
>> for about 5 seconds, then starts the cycle over.

--- Robert Meier wrote:
> I suspect a bad power supply.

As someone who has repaired hundreds of switching power supplies, I
agree with Bob--the power supply is likely defective or marginal,
probably a bad electrolytic capacitor.  MANY manufacturers have been
stung this way, still.  The bad cap may possibly be on the laptop's
motherboard, though the power supply is more likely.  It should be a
nice laptop once you get it working.

Would an air deflector over that CPU chip be a "shroud of Turin?"

~~ Michael Rudas
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