Sunday, March 12, 2017

windows 7 - Laptop Turning On and Off

Just for a heads up, I am not computer hardware savvy, but I do have a basic understanding of parts and what they do. I have not replaced any parts other than the hard drive but that was before the current problem.


I was in the middle of typing a paper on my laptop when the screen went black, but with the back light still on. I thought it was maybe the screensaver and wiggled the mouse, but it did nothing. So I pushed a few keys, and it did nothing again. So I just turned it off, hoping it would turn back on.


The issues begin there. When I turned it back on, the screen did not light up. I thought maybe it was just the laptop's screen itself, so I plugged in my computer monitor and that did not find anything. Mind you, my computer monitor has been used on my laptop before, usually when I play a game from my laptop and I want a better resolution. My immediate thought was perhaps it overheated. So I blew out some dust, and then sat it in front of my fan for about 15 minutes. Tried to turn it on again and nothing. So I unplugged the power supply and left my computer on, hopping to just let the battery die out, then charge it overnight. I was thinking that may solve some issues, as it did once or twice before.


But then my computer started going crazy. It started making beeping noises. I plugged it back in, thinking the beeping was just it telling me the battery was going dead, except it never did that before. So after awhile, I just got sick of waiting for a response, turned it off, unplugged it, and put it on my desk. But it then kept turning itself on, and I would hear the fan kick on, as well as the disk drive, but then it would just turn itself off. It has been doing this for the past hour now and won't stop, even with it unplugged it proceeds to turn itself off and on (and it does it while plugged in as well). I have no idea what the problem is. I am absolutely at a lost.


It might be the hard drive, but it was perfectly fine (as far as I am aware) when the problems started to occur. I only suggest it may be the problem because every time the laptop turns itself off, the hard drive makes a click sound.


Here are the specs I know about the laptop:
- It's a Gateway model, from 2010.
- AMD Turion II X2 processor P540
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
- 4 GB DDR3 Memory

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