I have a friend who killed her laptop, I'm not sure exactly how. Anyway, she replaced it, and now I'm trying to bring it back from the dead.
It's a tablet Gateway CX210X, and the problem simply is that when you turn it on the display does nothing but stay black. No BIOS, no nothing. My first thought was because it's a tablet, and has lived an abused life (keys missing, scratches all over the shell) that it was the display.
So, I hooked it up to my monitor via the VGA out, nothing... Black screen, doesn't post. I'm sitting there trying to figure out if this thing has an embedded GPU or not, I noticed that the display had gone into power saving mode. Which is normal, but I can bring it out by pressing the space bar. Which is also normal.
I'm figuring the GPU is dead, and from the documentation on Gateway's site it ether has "Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950", or an "ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 PCI Express Graphics featuring Avivo display technology".
Does anyone have an idea as to what might be wrong? Or know how I can find out which video solution it has?
Thanks,
~ Austin
It's a tablet Gateway CX210X, and the problem simply is that when you turn it on the display does nothing but stay black. No BIOS, no nothing. My first thought was because it's a tablet, and has lived an abused life (keys missing, scratches all over the shell) that it was the display.
So, I hooked it up to my monitor via the VGA out, nothing... Black screen, doesn't post. I'm sitting there trying to figure out if this thing has an embedded GPU or not, I noticed that the display had gone into power saving mode. Which is normal, but I can bring it out by pressing the space bar. Which is also normal.
I'm figuring the GPU is dead, and from the documentation on Gateway's site it ether has "Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950", or an "ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 PCI Express Graphics featuring Avivo display technology".
Does anyone have an idea as to what might be wrong? Or know how I can find out which video solution it has?
Thanks,
~ Austin