Ok so the other day I'm on my pavilion tx1000, all of a sudden it black screens and wont boot into windows anymore can't even see the bios on an external monitor. Slaved the drive to salvage data and hard drive is DEAD?! Receiving absolutely no power. Now when I turn the pc on still no image but all leds working, hear fan running aswell & cd drive working too. This laptop is a little over a year old. Please anybody have any input/advice? It is very much appreciated.Thanks.
Most likely it's just your LCD, but you need to clarify some points you made...
Quote:and wont boot into windows anymore
Do you mean the computer will give a POST screen when the machine powers on and not boot to Windows? Or do you mean nothing at all is displayed from the time you press the power key?
Quote:can't even see the bios on an external monitor
When you connect another monitor to the laptop you will need to press "fn" + F4 (has a picture of a monitor on it) that will tell the laptop to switch over.
Quote:Now when I turn the pc on still no image but all leds working, hear fan running aswell & cd drive working too.
Being that the power, hard drive LEDs and optical drive is functioning means that the computer is going through the proper boot sequence. Do you hear the Windows sound after a while if your sound is up?
Quote:Slaved the drive to salvage data and hard drive is DEAD?! Receiving absolutely no power.
You are saying the hard drive in the laptop is dead and does not power when you pulled it and hooked it up to another machine? How did you hook the drive to another machine? Assuming that the drive is SATA, being only a year old. Remember that the drive needs the SATA power connector like your full size HDD has on your desktop and the SATA data cable. If it's an IDE drive, you will need a special adapter. I'm sure you know...just checking.
Quote:This laptop is a little over a year old.
Did your computer come with a 1 year or 3 year manufacture warranty?
Try and hooking the laptop to a external monitor like you have and pressing fn + F4, if that does not work you will have to take it to someone to take it apart. There is a ribbon cable between the motherboard and the LCD, running through the hinge to the display. That, the LCD, or the LCD backlight could be bad.
Hey thanks for responding. I've tried most of what you suggested already. I dont think it's the LCD or the ribbon cable. The hard drive is dead and with these other symptoms the only thing I can think of is a fried motherboard. I read some stuff bout other people having this problem.New mobo cost $80 on ebay so we'll see what happens. If anything I'll spend the $150 on a board and hard drive then maybe try to flip it, who knos. Thanks tho
