I haven't actually turned off my laptop in some time (only hibernated). I took my laptop to a friend's and hibernated it before I left, turned it on over there, but then closed the lid. The laptop went into sleep mode and I pressed the spacebar to turn it back on, but it just went to a black screen. I held the power button to turn it off and back on, but it just goes to the "Asus gaming series" screen and does NOTHING.

The FRONT power button shows a different, colorful Asus logo, but that screen also does nothing (Except you can press ctrl+alt+del on both screens to restart).

Pressing the top power button goes to that "Asus gaming series" logo, and I can press Esc or F2 to get to the American Megatrends BIOS screen (as if it's going into setup or going into the boot selection menu) but it never does that either.

What I've currently tried:

* Removing and reseating the RAM and HDD
* Removing the battery and AC cord and holding the power buttons for 45secs
* Pressing the little >o< button on the bottom for about 30 secs with the AC cord in, and with it out
* Trying each stick of RAM separately
* Reflashing the BIOS (but I couldn't because it wouldn't enter the flash utility [F4 I believe])
* Nothing was in any USB port, except for a flash drive when I was trying the BIOS flash
* BOOTING a few different discs (couldn't even get to screen to choose where to boot from)

I've tried something once before when I had this problem that got it working again, but I'm not sure what it was. (

Thanks for any help.


Specs:

Asus G1S-A1
Windows 7
2.20GHz core 2 duo
4GB RAM (not stock)
1TB HDD (not stock)
BIOS is already FLASHED to 3.00 (or 300)Hi

Thanks for all the info. I would remove the harddrive and try powering the laptop up if it reports harddrive failure, then you know that there is something wrong with the boot sector on the harddrive. I would then suggest that you run the manufactures diagnostics for the harddrive. if that checks ok then it's just a boot sector data error and repairing that will be dependent on the version of windows.

Lisa
 Tried it just now. Powering up without a harddrive does the same things as stated above (no difference), unfortunately...Bump? Quote from: Bkid on November 02, 2011, 12:24:50 PM

Bump?