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Laptop worked this am, but when I did a shutdown it took about 10 mins. Then tried to boot later and no display would light up. I tried all the solutions on the web I could find: Took out battery, tried powering up with just ac cable, no good. Tried powering up without ac cable, no good. Tried holding down power button for 30 secs. plugging in only ac cable, no good. Put battery back in and ac cable in, no good. Reseated the RAM (and blew out a lot of dust that was on the fan), still no good. Is it the motherboard? graphics card? Any help appreciated
A little trick I learned from one of the senior members is to shine a flashlight in it to see if you can see anything. If you can, your backlight’s gone bad. If you can’t, it’s likely your gpu. Are any lights glowing?
I checked all my cable and wire connections to make sure the plugs were seated properly. I found the cable connecting the LCD screen at the LCD screen side being not properly seated. Once re-seated the E530, I have, started up with no issues.
