Laptop display got dimmed, and never able to boot up
I have HP DV4 Pavilion 1436TX.
While running, the display got dimmed until I could barely see anything, turned black. I shut it down through power button. Now I am not able to boot it up anymore. There is no LED light anywhere, even at the power plug. I took it to service center; they said they could fix, but charged very costly, and they won't reveal where the laptop goes wrong except that it's mother board problem. I cancelled the repair, but a guy briefly checked my laptop by turning it on. It booted up for while with blue screen something like "CMOS Reset... Invalid", then it went dimmed again, and won't boot up again.
Could this be the CMOS battery problem or other components? How can I identify the problem?
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I understand that your notebook does not boot up. You took it in to be serviced but the repair was too costly and you declined to have them repair it.
When you try to boot it up you do see the error"CMOS... reset Invalid".
You could try googling the error for additional information.
Here are links that may be able to help you.
Testing for Hardware Failures (Windows 7, Vista)
Computer Does not Start (Windows 7, Vista, XP)
Troubleshooting No LED Lights Glow During Startup or Boot
Computer Does Not Start and the LEDs Blink or the Computer Beeps
I hope these help.
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