re: #264 Stanley Seabola

Thanks for asking!!!!! (halp!)

I turn it on & its like its in sleep mode. Screen never comes up. I keep turning it on and off until it finally boots.

Unfortunately that could be a symptom of several things. The first thing I would do is check the hard drive connection, but it could be a flaky connection on the LCD or a flaky lcd incverter, or a dieing motherboard. If it was a memory issue I would expect there to be beeping involved. The hard drive is usually very easy to get at the LCD and inverter not so much. If it is the motherboard you are SOL

Or it may actually not be shutting down completely and getting stuck in sleep or hibernation mode which could be a software thing.

Wish I could give you a better answer, but without actually having access to the laptop it really isn’t possible to pin down much better than that.