Here is a great site to troubleshoot Laptop Motherboard Repairs. It gives you some great tips on what to look for if your laptop mother board begins to fail.
The signs are here:
The signs are here:
Tell tale signs of motherboard failure:
- You have switched on the computer being indicated by the light and fan also starts to spin. But there is complete black- out on the computer screen with the hard drive not working within 10- 15 sec.
- The initial start up functions appear like indicative light, fan and hard drive sound, but disappears after a while i.e. 5 – 3 mins.
- A high pitched sound comes from the laptop when you press the “on” button.
- Last one can be that even when you have switched on the computer nothing happens.
