rgbrock1
not a lot of options open to you
you can swap out the memory
you can remove the hard drive and optical drive and see if it powers up to a startup screen
If you can get at the BIOS jumpers you can reset those
or even replace the BIOS battery if you can get at it
you can remove any wireless / modem /bluetooth modules from the motherboard
you can visually check to see the USB ports aren't shorting
But beyond that, thats it. Everything else is motherboard related
I don't think its a software issue, because powering it down and removing the battery should have resolved any abnormal "sleep" problems: it should have powered back up with a warning message about hiberfil.sys or similar
Last edited by Milo Minderbinder; 27th June 2012 at 19:39.