Hello.
Yesterday my mother encountered a problem with her laptop, which led to it not turning on and expressing the behaviour mentioned in the title (you press the power button and then it turns off after a minute)
Here is what happened:
At one point i was fixing a setting on the laptop to make the laptop properly recognize the NVMe drive i put in months ago. All worked until all of a sudden the computer blue screened. The screen said it would reboot, but it never did. So she held down the power button, powering it off. Pressing it again, the screen briefly turned on for a second, then turned off. She was panicked, so she gave me the laptop to diagnose it. I thought it was going to be a simple issue, like an error on the laptop's power state, because it did a similar thing 3 years ago, and disconnecting both the CMOS battery and main battery for a minute fixed the problem. So i did the same steps i did when that happened. It didn't work, instead i made it worse. All it does now is just turn on, and after a minute, that's all. And nope, it doesn't have to do anything with the CMOS reset. It keeps on doing this no matter what i do.
RAM is not the fault here. I tested the laptop with and without RAM, and it did the diagnostic error code when i had it without ram. Neither the NVMe. So that to me sounds like a circuit error or something.
Is this something related to the power circuitry of the computer, or did the BIOS decide to corrupt? I can test with a multimeter if you point out what could go bad on those laptops, but i cannot reprogram the BIOS chip because for the moment i dont know if there is any sort of low level bios recovery or something to flash its bios image back on, nor do i have a chip reprogrammer. The laptop itself is the Core i3 6100U model, and the charger is a junk aftermarket that came with the laptop (yes, it was bought used from a shop) without any grounding whatsoever on the middle Shucko pin if that helps.
Thanks in advance.
Yesterday my mother encountered a problem with her laptop, which led to it not turning on and expressing the behaviour mentioned in the title (you press the power button and then it turns off after a minute)
Here is what happened:
At one point i was fixing a setting on the laptop to make the laptop properly recognize the NVMe drive i put in months ago. All worked until all of a sudden the computer blue screened. The screen said it would reboot, but it never did. So she held down the power button, powering it off. Pressing it again, the screen briefly turned on for a second, then turned off. She was panicked, so she gave me the laptop to diagnose it. I thought it was going to be a simple issue, like an error on the laptop's power state, because it did a similar thing 3 years ago, and disconnecting both the CMOS battery and main battery for a minute fixed the problem. So i did the same steps i did when that happened. It didn't work, instead i made it worse. All it does now is just turn on, and after a minute, that's all. And nope, it doesn't have to do anything with the CMOS reset. It keeps on doing this no matter what i do.
RAM is not the fault here. I tested the laptop with and without RAM, and it did the diagnostic error code when i had it without ram. Neither the NVMe. So that to me sounds like a circuit error or something.
Is this something related to the power circuitry of the computer, or did the BIOS decide to corrupt? I can test with a multimeter if you point out what could go bad on those laptops, but i cannot reprogram the BIOS chip because for the moment i dont know if there is any sort of low level bios recovery or something to flash its bios image back on, nor do i have a chip reprogrammer. The laptop itself is the Core i3 6100U model, and the charger is a junk aftermarket that came with the laptop (yes, it was bought used from a shop) without any grounding whatsoever on the middle Shucko pin if that helps.
Thanks in advance.