Re: Hello to all, first post and nc8230 hell

Thanks for your input guys, i will look for cold solder joints around BIOS chip and try to remedy these to the best of my ability. Will keep you guys posted.

Do you think I can rule out bad caps? ( since the laptop works fine if i managed to get it started )

regards to all,

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Re: Hello to all, first post and nc8230 hell

Hey guys, anybody thinks this could be due to bad caps on MB?

Please help me out

Hi everybody.

I am having some weird problems with my friend's hp/compaq nc8230. To cut a very long story short, the laptop won't boot 9 out of 10 times. It does not even reach post- just blank screen, but power led is on and fan spins.

now, a firm twisting of the laptop will increase the boot sucesses to about 6-7 out of 10. Once booted laptop works normally.

my friend has had the laptop for about 1 year w/o problems. MB has been replaced by vendor. Problems started about 1 month ago with original MB and the new MB has worked for 3 weeks before doing...