Hope someone can help my self generated problem.

Ive owned an Asus laptop for a few years now and will be upgrading to a new one later this month but the old one was starting to break around one of the hinges on the screen side. It was like the hinge was tight to rotate and was bending the plastic around the LCD panel and causing it to crack and it was only a matter of time before the screen itself would break.

So I thought I would free the hinge up and glue the plastic screen surround so it might last a little longer. Well now the laptop won’t even switch on, its completely dead showing no signs of power. If I plug the charger in (which is producing power) the charge light doesn’t even come on in the front lip of the laptop.

Any suggestions to get it back to life?

The only things I think I did to cause this where a few drops of oil on the hinge but I have checked below the hinge and its dry so i am sure no oil got onto any electrics and the other one was I also left the laptop half open upside down while the glue set on the outer casing and this might have flattened the battery?

The battery was old and only held a 30 minute charge anyway but would a dead battery stop any power getting to the ‘on’ switch? Does a laptop require a battery fitted to start up on mains power?

One more thing, if all is lost can I remove the hardrive and fit it into a caddy and get my files off it by treating it as a USB hardrive?

Help please lads. Its got my flight confirmation emails on it and I really need a holiday lol.

if you do some googling you may be able to find the full instructions for dismantling it... I certainly have for HP and Sony laptops in the past....
strip it down properly and check all connections.

as for the hard drive... yes should be easy enough to pull the files off it as you describe. Maplins sell adaptors so you can power it up and link it to a usb port. just make sure you get the right one, I am guessing it wont be sata given the age of the laptop but check first!

Other than taking it apart again and checking the connections etc it's hard to say.

To get at your files, you can connect the hard drive to another PC with an adapter - I'm not sure if you can put all types of drive into a caddy, I know you can with SATA ones but not sure if they are available for IDE drives.

Sounds like the power isn't getting through so maybe the power connector has come loose or something? I don't think the dead battery will be a problem because you can take the battery out with the power connected and it won't go off.

Cheers

Mark

you can get adaptors for either ide or sata....

which model of laptop is it ?

on mine (ASUS - L2000D) the power button and charging lights are on a bit right next to the hinge, but yours sounds a bit different

the only way to find out is open it up

I managed to strip mine down and fix it without a manual - just take loads of pics so you remember where all the bits go

http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/mcerd1/IMG_4038.jpg

btw - on most asus laptops you can get to the hard drive without takeing the whole thing apart - look for a small panel on the side or bottom with a tiny HDD symbol on it

I've had the disc out quite a few times, I use an £5 usb2.0 enclosure


[Edited on 28/5/09 by mcerd1]

and make a note of where evry screw goes as they are usually different lengths!

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Originally posted by Moorron
One more thing, if all is lost can I remove the hardrive and fit it into a caddy and get my files off it by treating it as a USB hardrive?

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[Edited on 28-5-09 by DaveFJ]

cheers guys sounds like all my flight details can be saved then. Alltho im more interested in my various fuel maps for the kitcar lol

yes my laptop is a 5021 or something. a work buddy has one very simular so i will see if his battery fits. if it fails and i manage to backup the HD then im going to strip it down. HD is under it and is a 2 minute job to remove so it looks like i can save it tonight with one of the usb adaptors. Cheers for the links.

Try removing the battey and just using the power supply it worked for me on an old Dell

Dave

i have an adapter set specifically for this (not even in an enclosure) and it does all sorts of connections

i use it all the time, don't worry