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Laptop just died...power/battery???

Last answer on Sep 15, 2009 1:37:01 am BST shaun111, on May 17, 2009 10:02:44 am BST 
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Hey,
Yesterday, while I was just doing normal stuff on my Asus F3-JR laptop it just shutdown instantly. No warning or anything. At the moment, there is no response at all, not even a light to say that the power is plugged in. Although, when the main is plugged in, a very very quiet noise can be heard from it, and it slowly heats up as if it were running. It was plugged in when it turned off and I'm fairly sure it was fully charged, I haven't had battery problems yet. I've read around the net for a solution but nothing has worked so far.
I've taken it apart and cleaned it out a bit (hdd, ram, processor, fan, little round battery, wireless chip), nothing;
I've taken the battery out for a while, nothing;
I've held the power button in for +30 seconds with various hardware setting, still nothing.
I need it working, mainly because I have some important things not backed up, ie: uni assignments that are due soonish. This one has me stumped! I'd rather not send it to a pro, too expensive for me at the moment.
Thanks loads if you can help!!!
Shaun

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sadcasm, on May 17, 2009 10:07:59 am BST
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Lol your hard drive melted!!!!!! srsly it probably did, it wont start up aswell....

   
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shaun111, on May 18, 2009 7:21:41 am BST

So you think there's no way of saving what's on my hard drive? great :(

   
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Paul, on Sep 11, 2009 9:34:06 pm BST

Sadcasm is ignorant. This almost certainly did NOT destroy your hard drive. It's much more likely to be a system board or processor failure based on what you describe. The hard drive can be removed and placed in a desktop computer and then a full disk check run on it.

   
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 laptopdude, on Sep 15, 2009 1:37:01 am BST

Im specificly a laptop expert and paul is correct it indicates a board or PSU problem eitherway un-fixable if it was processor it would still start either way take your harddrive out put it in a desktop or case an make it a portable harddrive and throw the lapo away. agreed tho paul :D sadcasm is an idiot

   
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