cwunnenberg wrote:
I have reseated the GPU, swapped around all 4 RAM sticks and ensured they were properly seated, and I've got my shovel ready. I fear the mobo may be fried, though it showed no physical indications. And @Pitcher, I have no clue where my nearest parts repair center would be, and I cannot access that information from the website on my phone.
Don't know that you will want to send it to ASUS in California for out-of-warranty repair, but if you are interested, check the
ASUS U.S. and Canadian contact information page here to request an out-of-warranty RMA.
If nothing drastically went wrong during the disassembly and assembly though, guessing there may just be something not connected properly rather than a defective motherboard.
You should usually see a battery charge light before you even power on the notebook, so hoping you will see this at least, otherwise, make sure everything looks good with the AC adapter and the light on your AC adapter is lit.
Otherwise, you might try to simplify the system as much as possible and unplug any unnecessary items like the battery, extra memory (leave only 1 stick?), hard drive, optical drive, keyboard, touchpad, unnecessary cables, etc. that you don't need to just power on.
Below are a few more things to check if you're interested.
1. Check the pins (for the microphone and webcam cable?) on the motherboard to your LCD module to make sure none of the pins were bent if you unplugged and plugged them back in.
2. You should probably still see a battery charge light, but try to reseat the cable to the power switch board under the keyboard and make sure it's connected well.
3. You may not have removed the cpu, but make sure the cpu locking screw is tight, or try to reseat the cpu and make sure you can't just lift it out of the socket which means you didn't lock it.
4. Unplug the LCD and connect to an external monitor instead, or leave both unplugged until you can get the unit to power on at least.
Good luck!
