{"id":6597,"date":"2021-11-19T13:57:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=6597"},"modified":"2021-11-19T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:04:12","slug":"compaq-laptop-black-screen-wont-boot","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/compaq-laptop-black-screen-wont-boot\/67684.html","title":{"rendered":"Compaq Laptop Black Screen \/ Won&#8217;t Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, I have recently taken on a small project for a friend to fix a Compaq Presario CQ60-218EM.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t too much I can explain about it, when the power button is pushed, it turns on, the hard drive doesn&#8217;t sound like its booting anything, the backlight doesn&#8217;t turn on. The LED&#8217;s are lighting up fine, I&#8217;ve tried a Hard Reset, plugging it into an external monitor via HDMI, I also assumed it could have been a full OS crash before hand, so I created a Vista Recovery Disc and tried to use that, DVD Drive picked it up and was trying to read it but no further activity happened.<\/p>\n<p>I originally assumed it was a RAM error \/ issue as I was told the RAM had been replaced after burning out previously. RAM was tested in a different laptop and was fully functional. I&#8217;m out of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>My brain is fried with trying to figure out what else could possibly be wrong with it. If someone could please help it would be very appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance,<br \/>\nFeenuX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":7},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6597","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/6597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}