HELP! LAPTOP WON'T SHOW ANYTHING!!!!!

[Dusk Star]

A teardown video, to show how to get at the memory, hard drive, etc. is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvm5KS9k-s

Good Luck!

[JChavis]

Thank You both for your suggestions!
I figured out that the connection between the hard drive and the motherboard was being prevented by a wire that powers the realtek graphics system. Whenever the covers are placed over the electronics, the wire adds pressure to the SATA convertor connector, causing it to not get a proper connection. I believe a cause to this was the loose wire that somehow loosened up even more in the wrong place. The RAM Stick wasn't damaged, and the Hard Drive wasn't damaged (WHEW!!!).

Again, thanks!!!!


If I can, I may be able to post a video of what I did to help others who may have this problem...

The video this time will be for the E11 Classmate, as I had to figure out how to take it apart, for the video posted did help, but it was for a past version of it.

[TeleportSandwic]

You should post a link to whatever video you make.

P.S If you are reading this, the laptop broke again, so this might not be a permanent fix.

[JChavis]

Well, it seems that our laptop again won't function properly. I still think it is the connector from the hard drive to the motherboard, or even the RAM stick inside the computer. Is there any type of special service that FRC teams can use for laptops? I already Reseated the RAM stick and the Hard Drive several times, so I can't tell what the problem is for this computer.....

With all of these problems going on, we were able to hook up our hard drive to one of our school computers and boot it off of the hard drive, which worked perfectly. This still furthers my theory of the yellow laptop connector being the problem between the hard drive and the motherboard. I just hope that FRC teams can get their classmates serviced......

Oh, and if you are reading this Nick, we got the robot driving and turning!!! We just need to fix the programming to be able to get the back two wheels turning tomorrow!

[Dusk Star]

One thing I might recommend for getting your back wheels to work is to just use a pwm splitter to run both jags off of one signal. That way, you can ensure that each side is operating in sync, without extra work for the programmers.

[JChavis]

Originally Posted by Dusk Star

One thing I might recommend for getting your back wheels to work is to just use a pwm splitter to run both jags off of one signal. That way, you can ensure that each side is operating in sync, without extra work for the programmers.

Yep, that was the exact thought I had in mind. It's just exciting to see that our robot chassis looks formidable....