Hey all. Yesterday, I posted asking for help with a battery problem. Unfortunately, my laptop will no longer even boot...every time I hit the power button, it turns on and just beeps twice while the power indicator flashes. I can't even boot from CD, so it's gotta be a serious issue. I'm not real worried about data loss (just made a complete backup 2 days ago, thank god), so I'm open to any ideas. I called HP today and they're telling me to ship it in, but I just thought I'd see what your thoughts were :). Thanks for the help... --Max

you know, i'd bet that little socket for the charger broke off inside..same thing happened to my zx5000..good luck, hopefully yours is better than mine has been with my hp Gigabyte GA-K8NS Athlon64 3000+ Venice E6 Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu LED X800XL 256MB AGP 1GB Corsair VS 120GB WD/160GB Maxtor Aspire Chameleon 550W

So that would mean no power getting through at all then...did you have to send it in?

well you can probably Google beep code for ______ and figure out the error message. also if ur power conector did break of, its an easy fix with a few conector from radio shack or an auto supply store. you can open the comp, remove the old conector and solder on 2 lead wires, cut them at about 2 inch and feed them out the back of your comp...put a conector that u can buy at radio shack or something them and do the same to the charger end cutting off the old conector. Did it to my moms Compaq works like a charm and hp was gonna charge 300 to fix it. back up your back up...i just lost 300 gigs of "back up" and i don't have the originals for a lot of it.

O_O Considering I have 4 year full coverage on that thing...I think I'll let them take care of it. But, uh, thanks for the info...of course, considering their track record I may be better off following your suggesstion -_-.

Cleaning and reseating your ram can also solve the problem. A portable computer being moved around all the time can easily have items vibrate or be jolted loose and not be seated properly.

Best not to void your warranty and try a repair of things you have no experience with. Good plan. Send it back.