Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts down

[atsio]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

Your problem has nothing to do with the power button. Just check pin 2 (lid_sw) on the connector to see if it is high.
Firtsly, I should check all connectors for shorted pins.

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

Your problem has nothing to do with the power button. Just check pin 2 (lid_sw) on the connector to see if it is high.
Firtsly, I should check all connectors for shorted pins.

apparently the only additional board it has its the power button!
the board its new(apparently)

[ktmmotocross]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

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[cyberhack]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

switch is 3.19V on it whether on or off ,should drop to 0v when pressed looks like the switch is o/c or no ground in that case ribbon cable damaged.

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

Pin 2 LID_SW is at 3.37 on or off with the lid open.

When I test pin 9 ON/OFFBTN, I do get 0.02V while the button is depressed. As soon I release the button, it goes up to 3.26 or so. Most of the time, sometimes, it stays at 0.02V until I take the probe off and put it back on. In which case it jumps back up.

Very strange, I wonder how much of my testing is user error.

[atsio]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

As I told you. Your problem has nothing to do with the power board.
Check if you have shorted pins on all connectors (i.e. LVDS).

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

OK, I've been testing for continuity between pins on various ports. Not knowing what should and shouldn't have connectivity, I get some beeps no the RAM pins, some on the LVDS, a split second of it with various pins and pin 1 on the power board port.

How do I know where there is supposed to be continuity and where it's a short?

Cheers,
Alex

[atsio]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

When I say shorted pins I mean bended pins.

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

I went over it with a magnifying lens, I don't see anything that looks bent or pressed together.

Any ideas of where I would look to find the most likely shorts based on the behavior of the computer?

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

i wanna ask you this again to be 100%

bought it from ebay with new status?

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

yeah. and it looks new too. No wear on the inside of any of the ports. Doesn't mean it's not bad.

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

But since the symptoms are the SAME with the old board, I feel like it's got to be one of the original components. CPU, Power button module, or something else.

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

Any opinions on what you'd replace first, guys? CPU or power button module? Or tell the seller I think I got a bad board?

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

Ok, I went with the power button module board. I'll update if it does anything

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

find a intel Pentium processor like this one P6200 .
maybe you can find it cheap.

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

Any reason why you chose the pentium? If it's cost, I can find i3 1st generation on ebay for less than $10 often.

Cheers,
Alex

[withalligators]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

Ok, solved. It WAS a bad, yet new, motherboard. The seller sent me another, I put everything in, and it booted right up. I then discovered the screen was also bad, but that's easy.

Thanks for the input guys.

Cheers,
Alex

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

pfiu!
good news at last!

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Gateway (shudder) NV59C63u charges battery, blue LED when powered, then shuts dow

When I got it, if you pressed the power button, the blue LED would light up, but that was it. The fan spins, but no screen illumination, nothing. After a few seconds, it would turn itself off, then back on again and the fan would spin, but everything else would be the same and it wouldn't shut itself off.

Possibly a bad socket. Sounds like identical symptoms to my Maximus II Gene (LGA 775) before being RMA'ed in 2013. It had F-ed up socket pins.
Even though laptops apparently never used LGA.