My Median laptop is stuck on the Median logo and if left on long enough, it starts to over heat with the fans kicking.
Can anyone advise what the fault could be?
Any help is greatly appreciated
Grover
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My Median laptop is stuck on the Median logo and if left on long enough, it starts to over heat with the fans kicking.
Can anyone advise what the fault could be?
Any help is greatly appreciated
Grover
could do with more information mate, has it been dropped, kicked or generally knocked about at any point recently?
Do you have any diagnostics built in (similar to dell machines?) that you could run at startup?
Can you take the HDD out and see if boots any further? same with the RAM if it has 2 sticks, take 1 out, boot, see what happens, if no change then swap it with the other one and see if it gets any further, if only 1 then take it out and see if the laptop complains or it sticks on the same screen?
if you can then go into the bios, reset it to defaults and see if that has any effect
Do you use it on a hard surface generally or do you have it on a cover (duvet, blanket etc.) that may have caused it to overheat originally?
im sure someone else will chime in with some advice for you mate but that is where i would start
Unfortunately no diagnostics or bios keys are shown just the initial boot logo. Key pressing the usually bios keys does nothing. Just get error beep for pressing too many keys.
I have moved both memory sticks and switched on - fans are still going but blank screen (Red led on front)
Same fault as above with single memory
Same fault as above with single memory swapped slots
I have removed the HD with both memory still in and the still stuck on Median logo with fans going (Initial fault)
Single memory with HD removed and same fault as above
All components back as they were and without power lead - results laptop stays on with initial fault then after about 2 mins, self shuts-down
All components back as they were and with power lead - results laptop stays on with initial fault.
Hope this helps
Thanks for trying that out mate, have you tried it without the battery in?Quote:
Originally Posted by grover2000
Take out Mains lead, remove battery, plug the mains back in, turn it on and see what it does
My view is the hard drive is dead. Do you have another hard drive you can try in it.
If it POST 's but gets no further I'd bet its hard drive related.
Sent from my E6553 using Tapatalk
I have taken the battery off and plug mains in and unfortunately same results (Initial Fault).
Any help is greatly appreciated
Grover
agree if none of this gets anywhere then he needs to try it in a caddy and see if it can still be read or try a different hddQuote:
Originally Posted by muttleymacclad
I have checked the Hdd in a caddy connected to Mac and it seems to read all files no issues.
I tried the caddy Hdd in the laptop and still in initial fault state
Any help is greatly appreciated
sorry mate, couldnt reply before now, from what you have tried I am guessing that the problem is worse than I originally thought, you could try using RAM from a completely different laptop to rule that out 100% but your unlikely to have the correct modules available (and it would be unusual for both of yours to break at the same time) so I am leaning towards the problem being with your motherboard in the laptop.
I have had a similar scenario before with a laptop and it turned out that the fans were not working the way they should (but were still working) and the CPU overheated, the laptop would boot to the logo screen but would go no further, as a guess its possible something similar has happened to yours.
anyone else got any advice?
As seeing that you've tried all the regular stuff the next step for me would be a bios reset ... strip the bugger and pop the bios battery out and hold the power button for 30 seconds with no charger or main battery attached
If it's a soldered battery you can try to find the clear CMOS pads, may be labelled as reset, BIOS or some random number. I'd try removing the HDD, inserting a bootable CD and see if that boots but by the sounds of it the problem isn't the HDD. If you have any external devices connected, remove them.Quote:
Originally Posted by big3card
Disconnect the keyboard also and boot, as a stuck key can also cause this issue, also some laptops have a single hidden ram module under the keyboard, be sure to test that as well.
When you turn the laptop on and the "median" logo appears, press the tab key to reveal the post screen as that will give u a good idea of the error
I have stripped the laptop and replaced the battery bios battery for added measure - (also vac cleaned fans, cleaned cpu and applied new thermal paste) put it back together and noticed that the laptop is in same condition. the only different thing is that the F1 and F12 bios options are visible at boot logo, but pressing the respective keys doesn't make any difference.
The motherboard is a Pegatron H36T rev 2.3.
Another fault with it now it does not power up - just used up the charged battery (Oh what fun) - Checked the cables inside and nothing obvious.
Any help is greatly appreciated
Grover
Did u try starting it without the keyboard connected AND using an external USB keyboard instead ?
I have an external keyboard but I can't test with power issue now
When you plug the psu in , so you get any lights on laptop
Try removing the batt and try power it up
Unfortunately, adaptor lights up but nothing on the laptop. I will have to a meter on it to see where power is failing. Tried with and without battery
Was the Medion bought from Aldi or Lidl as they have a 3 year warranty
It was bought direct from medion and it came with a three year warranty and it expired 2 years ago.
5 yr old lappy bin it lol
Check for shorts in the USB ports . Chase the voltage from psu
To the mobo . And check the fb on the +v line for OC
to be honest mate your probably better off binning this one and getting yourself a new one, even if you find out what the exact problem on this one is now i doubt its going to be cost effective to fix and how long it will last once you have fixed it will be another unknown.
If you pay the postage on it I'll have a look at for you .
But I wouldn't put it down as BER just yet.
Pm if you want me to look at it .