Brett Johnson

I was playing beat saber, my VR game, and my PC crashed. Previously the game crashed a couple times. I think it was my CPU...

Take out the battery in the system, plug in the charger, and see if it turns on. If so then DC can work, and the charger as well. If it turns on, then just replace the battery.

When opening it, start the videos from there instead of using a hotkey. See if that fixes your issues, or delete and reinstall Geforce Experience. That’s what has Shadow Play. It won’t delete your drivers. If that doesn’t work. Download a older version of Geforce Experience.

What motherboard do you have? Your motherboard can have beep codes or have LED lights that show the post stage. It will go CPU- RAM- GPU or something similar to that. If the light is stuck on CPU then that is most likely the issue. If your friend would be cool with it, try his CPU or another one if possible. If it is the same socket. You said you bought a entire new motherboard, PSU and ram just for it? Let’s be honest, whats the chances you have two broken sets of a PSU, RAM, or motherboard. It’s most likely the CPU. You should sell some of those parts or at least you have extra for another :) But again, try what I said, and tell me what motherboard you are using.

Open it up again, maybe check a guide for this one. Although the fact you know about thermal paste, ha, you probably know what your doing. So it could of been a mess up. May not be good of enough contact. Open it up again, make sure everything is plugged up right and screwed in tight for contact. Thermal paste in majority isn’t conductive, so I don’t know want to say thermal paste in any way is the issue. Have you went back in it and try again? Or mess around?

One stick would work fine. I would only do so if you plan adding another one later as dual channel memory allows faster and better performance as the loads are split, rather than one stick doing all the work.

It was preinstalled with windows 7 I see but do you have windows 10 by chance? If you have windows 10, press F8 constantly as the system turns on. This will get to “Safe Mode” In safe mode, find “Reset your PC” Doing this should hopefully reinstall windows 10 for you. If you have windows 7. How did you do a factory reset? What option did you select. if you have windows 7, you could directly download windows 10 online to a USB and install it onto your laptop as it could handle it. Could do the same if it was Windows 10 but only if my first solution didn’t work. I can give you much more details on possible solutions but before that. I need 2 questions to be answered. (1) Do you have Windows 7 still or updated to Windows 10? Do you have Windows 7 or 10 basically. Don’t care how it got there. (1.1) How did you try to factory reset the device?

Someone on the internet with the same phone said to make sure your APN and SIM card are working properly. You could also try taking out the SIM card, maybe its conflicting with your public wifi options. Try and do something with both things I said and get back to me.

The first thing you could try before all that or after, preferably first, is to take out the battery and try plugging the charger in the laptop to supply in a more direct power. Then turn it on a see what happens. Can you get to BIOS? Anyways. (1) I am going to assume you have Windows 10. After turning on the laptop, keep pressing “F8” (2) This will get to “Safe Mode” afterwards, go to “Troubleshoot”—- if you can get to Safe Mode thats a great thing to know. So tell me. (3) After that go to “Reset your PC” (4) Then press “Keep my files” Doing so should reinstall Windows and hopefully fix your issue as I would primarily want to assume some OS hdd failure as its the easiest to start with. Especially since its just a black screen afterwards. You could also try plugging the laptop to an external monitor and see if it boots. Once its hooked up to an external monitor. Start up your laptop, and press and hold the function key which is the letters "fn" inside a box. Press and hold this with the corresponding F#...

Try to shut down and go to settings press volume and mute it then shut down once more Copied and pasted from another IFIXIT post. I would like to mention this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6z6umD... Not completely sure if thats the same all in one pc/ motherboard you have but I went based on what you told me. (Lenovo AIO C20-00) If you look in the vid, he never actually takes out the battery, he unplugs a cable that powers the CMOS battery it appears. Waits a few seconds then plugs it back in and it works. Resetting the BIOS does erase a BIOS pass. You’re just not doing something right. Watch that video. PS. From what I can see and watch, it does not appear to have a jumper. Just the battery.