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November 8th, 2006 17:00

D800 7 beeps no BIOS screen

I was working on a Latitude D800 that was acting flakey to begin with e.g. on bootup garbage graphics appeared on the screen for a second. I upgraded the system BIOS and several drivers. Finally on a reboot, there were 7 or 8 beeps and no BIOS screen appears. I tried a docking station, tried getting the system to boot off floppy or CD but it doesn't seem to be making it through POST. My suspicion is the video card was dying and finally died. The system has been out of warranty for a couple years. I'm guessing the best bet is to get a new graphics card from e-bay, but wondered if anybody has any other suggestions or a different diagnosis.
  • Rijko

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    Posted November 10th, 2006 01:00

    hi,
    i don't know how confident you are about taking the laptop apart but if you are...
     
    In these cases i usually take the laptop apart.
    First, remove the floppy, cdrom, harddisk, pcmcia cards, battery etc and see if the system's response improves.
    ( e.g. POST better, or better graphics )
    If so, put each part back and see if the problems returns.
     
    Still no luck ? i usually re-seat the memory, videocard and CPU and connectors for the keyboard
    and touchpad.
    Take out modem, wifi card etc if possible.
     
    That solved the problem in very many cases for me - hope it works for you.

    Message Edited by Rijko on 11-09-200609:46 PM