Toshiba Satellite L500d-00x -- Power LED on no display, tried VGA hoop-up

Mark7805 · Mar 21, 2015

Hello gals&guys

I'm looking at a friends laptop and I hear the fan spinning and the power LED on, however I don't get a display on the main monitor, nor if I hook up the VGA. I tried a combination of the FN hotkeys, as well as windows+P for changing the displays.

No luck.

At one point a fan started to speed up extremely rapidly inside, then went back to idle RPM.

Any ideas?

Any help is greatly appreciated

BUFDUP · Mar 22, 2015

try re-seating ram.

I work in a PC store. I see alot of laptops like this. Usually its the GPU on the board thats gone. Sometimes a reflow works. If not, then a new motherboard is needed. (worst case scenario)

Mark7805 · Mar 22, 2015

BUFDUP said:
try re-seating ram.

I work in a PC store. I see alot of laptops like this. Usually its the GPU on the board thats gone. Sometimes a reflow works. If not, then a new motherboard is needed. (worst case scenario)

appreciate the reply my friend. I'll definitely try that.

PLAfiller · Mar 23, 2015

My wife's laptop had the same symptom. It turn out that the integrated GPU has died. Everything else was working fine. The laptop would start, but have no output. The reason was a huuuge dust ball, which could've been prevetned had I opened it for a clean up earlier.

One thing you could try with it, is take out the battery, uplug the cable, hold the power button for 5 sec. and turn it on with only AC power, no battery. It helped me when flashing the BIOS. It just wouldn't do it with the battery in. Not exactly relevant, but won't hurt a shot.

AsRock · Mar 23, 2015

Connect a monitor\HDTV in to the HDMI port if available and see if any thing comes on then. If some thing does come on then the panel would look like it had gone and not the video card.

Mark7805 · Mar 23, 2015

lZKoce said:
My wife's laptop had the same symptom. It turn out that the integrated GPU has died. Everything else was working fine. The laptop would start, but have no output. The reason was a huuuge dust ball, which could've been prevetned had I opened it for a clean up earlier.

One thing you could try with it, is take out the battery, uplug the cable, hold the power button for 5 sec. and turn it on with only AC power, no battery. It helped me when flashing the BIOS. It just wouldn't do it with the battery in. Not exactly relevant, but won't hurt a shot.

Hey IZKoce, I tried the second part but haven't checked the inside. That's next on my list, just have to go purchase a tool set.

AsRock said:
Connect a monitor\HDTV in to the HDMI port if available and see if any thing comes on then. If some thing does come on then the panel would look like it had gone and not the video card.

AsRock, I did try this as well and no luck. The laptop had VGA only

I'm guessing the video card circuitry is toast on the laptop's motherboard. I'll be sure to post a reply if I find a solution

Thanks again everybody

Mark7805 · Mar 23, 2015

Figured it out guys

It was the RAM needing reseating. I ripped them sticks out then chucked them back in. Display showed up almost right as soon as I powered it on.

You guys rule, keep this community flowing

Cheers

BUFDUP · Mar 23, 2015

Mark7805 said:
Figured it out guys

It was the RAM needing reseating. I ripped them sticks out then chucked them back in. Display showed up almost right as soon as I powered it on.

You guys rule, keep this community flowing

Cheers

Told ya! lol

Mark7805 · Mar 23, 2015

Anyone know why re-seating the RAM can fix the display exactly? Seems like such a weird cross of entities that are dependent on each other :s

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Toshiba Satellite L500d-00x -- Power LED on no display, tried VGA hoop-up

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