S440 Touch - Think its dead
Hello everyone.
Ran into a bit of a problem today and unfortunately i cant get in touch with the local tech support till Monday. So im just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem as me.
S440 was delivered mid April and all seemed to be going well apart from the small blemishs on the case of the computer on arrival.
So the issue is last night i used the always on USB to charge my phone and was using the laptop to copy over music and surf the net.
Today woke up and the laptop was dead. Had to run out to work so just thought that the battery was flat. On getting to work plugged in the computer and nothing happened. Thought it might be a dodgy plug as wasnt in my office so when i got home tried the normal plug that i would used and still nothing. I spoke with the lenovo support in the US and they had me press the little button on the base of the computer for about 20 seconds for a static discharge.
The only hope i have is that the status light flashes 3/4 times when i plug in to power cable ( i think ) on the ohter hand i think that the computer is dead and needs to be replaced.
if the laptop is dead I am starting to wonder what silly mistake i have made by moving to this brand and when the computer is replaced will i need to do this again in another 4 months. As i use the computer for work this is not something that i can deal with on a regular basis.
Has anyone else had the same issue and what was the outcome?
Hi again,
I managed to get the computer to work again after pressing the reset button, taking the battery, memory and SSD out, disconnecting and reconnecting the BIOS battery, then plugging only the battery back (which gave me a long string of beeps together with several status LED blinks), and then reconnecting first the memory (so I could get into Lenovo Diagnostics), and then the SSD. The status LED now blinks three times every time I connect the power source, but I guess is a small price to pay...
Finally, I disabled the Always-on USB option from the BIOS, since I think this caused the issue in the first place. I'm posting this in case someone else runs into the same problems.
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