Laptop Issues

Sven

A friend has given me his old Everex laptop after it has stopped working for him. The problem with the laptop is that the screen is not turning on when you boot it. He claims this problem started after "Messing around in Bios and hitting something, then having it black out on me." Iv tried hooking it up to an external monitor, but its not showing anything there.

The Laptop is a Everex Stepnote Model NM3500W

Any ideas as to whats wrong?

mrbernz

Is it running off the battery or plugged in? Do any of the lights come on? You might try unplugging it and removing the battery for 20 mins or so...

Sven

Iv tryed running if on and off the plug. I tryed unplugging it and taking out the battery, and no change.

ZackSchilling

Can you get it to make beeping sounds mashing the keyboard? Do you hear, say, the Windows startup sound?

If no sound and it has two sticks of RAM, try booting with just one stick, each in turn.

Sven

No sounds, and only one stick of ram.

Im slowly becoming glad that i dident pay anything for this.

Sunstrand

If he was messing around in the bios and did something could you not try to reset the bios, removing the battery and maybe changing a jumper. I'm not familar with the laptop but I would assume it can't be that different from a pc.