My laptop won't turn on when I push the power button.

[gander360]

This worked Great! I was tripping when I couldn't turn on laptop this morning prior to my meeting (where it was mandatory to bring your laptop). Thanks for the tip.

[Esther13]

I bought the chrome book 14 around maybe August- September of last year and then around November
My laptop was on , fully charged and it turned off on me out of nowhere
I have yet to figure out what is wrong with it and i cant even remove the battery because it's screwed with nails in the back
Please help
It was a good laptop but i cant even use it

[DrHelfrich]

My son downloaded a racing game, the computer was low on battery power and shut off. After plugging it in there was a distinct smell, almost like burnt plastic, no smoke, smell is gone. I followed your directions Of unplugging and trying again. Now the light comes on (which it didn't at all before) but it only comes on for a few moments and shuts off. Let me know if there is a way to fix this problem. Thanks in advance!

Chris

[Aspa1]

my laptop won't boot at all even when I have remove the battery, unplug the ac. I
tried to restart it again, its the ac light that is only blinking when I fix the battery or plug to ac.

[animewolf]

My laptop is a hp 15 that runs windows 8 and won't boot up. When I push the power button the screen lights but it stays gray.

[Jcg143]

Woo hoo it worked! I was freaking out when my laptop wouldn't turn on & had tried every trick I could find with no success-- then I found this post & tried holding the power button for 30 sec with the battery removed, then popped the battery back in, pressed the power button & Violá!
Ty Ty Ty!!!

[Annie09]

I did what you said but it won't work. When I turned it on, only the power button turned on but the screen did not. Do you still have any idea on how to make it work?

[Newton1]

Seems my problem is similar to many, in that one day my laptop worked fine, and the next time I tried to use it nothing works at all. However, in my case my laptop makes no sounds and there are no lights of any sort when I press the power button. (Not even any light where the A/C adaptor plugs in) I don't have a spare battery or spare power supply to try, but I did check the following:
1 - A/C adaptop (90W, 19VDC out at 4.74A, part # 609940-001) puts out 19.3 VDC (acording to my multimeter w/ adaptor unloaded/ unplugged from laptop. I checked between the inner and outter terminals of cord connection on end that plugs into the laptop, but did not check the center pin there.)
2 - Battery (9cell - 593550-001) has button followed by 4 LEDs. I assume this is meant to check its charge level. When pressed, 3 LEDs out of 4 light up temporarily, and if I remember correctly my laptop was at about 70-80% charge when I last shut it down.
3 - I've tried unplugging the A/C adaptor & battery, and holding down the power button for 5 minutes, 2 times. Once I tried putting only the battery back in, and the second time w/ only the A/C adaptor plugged in. Results were the same. No LEDs/ sound.

The only abnormal symptoms I had prior to this was my laptop always seems to run fairly hot, especially if I was using the laptop while plugged into A/C power to recharge the battery. Its been doing that almost from the time it was new. On two occasions about 3 months ago the laptop even shut down to protect itself due to high internal temperatures. I do not have a cooling pad, but I also only use the laptop in an office type environment where room temperatures are not extreme, and I have never seen any dust in the vent openings. So its seems from other postings that the high operating temperatures is a design problem, esp with this particular line of products. Since my laptop is just over 4 yrs old, its not under warranty, and if something like the system board needed replaced, I'm capable of doing that myself, but I'm not so familiar with this technology that I'm willing to assume what the problem is (i.e. a dead system board due to high temperatures) and replace part w/o some sort of external confirmation.

My laptop is a HP Pavilion dv6t Select Edition Entertainment...w/ Windows 7 pro 64 bit OS. It has the i5-560M processor (625824-001) & 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD-5470 switchable graphics system board for dual core processors. (615280-001) and 6GB system memory. I can provide other specs if needed.

If there are any steps I've missed before needing to take the laptop in for repair, please let me know. Thanks. 🙂

[welcomebond]

Thanks...it worked to me also...

[JohnAC57]

It Worked thankyou