Hi so i'm new here and looking for help. I have an Advent laptop which is exactly 2 years old today (29/03/09- which is when it broke!!!) and the manufacturer's warranty is out the window. So here's the problem; i know the battery is over half way charged so i turn the laptop on without it being plugged into the mains, i type my password in at the windows log in screen, it loads up windwos fine and then goes off. Complete power off, and nwo it won't turn back on. It won't even charge; i plug the power adapter into the laptop and the light is on on the adapter but no lights come on on the laptop, i have tried the charger in another socket but it don't think the problem is a dead battery because i know 10000% it is over half way charged and that shouldn't be the problem.

I was wondering if anyone can help, thanks. Test your battery on another similar laptop or use a known good working battery just to help rule the batter out.

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If it does not power ON using AC adapter, it could be something on the motherboard or your AC adapter. I suggest you first check the output of your AC adapter using a multimeter.

The voltage reading you get should equal the one on the adapter's label. Also check DC connection (where output jack of adapter plugs into the laptop) as sometimes it breaks and does not make contact with the motherboard.

And lastly may be you can try a power drain. Remove the battery and unplug ac adapter. Press and hole power ON button for 30secs at least.

Put back the battery and plug back AC. Power ON as normal. Post back what happens. The power drain never worked.

In the end i have a new laptop but still have the old one and it's never powered on since. I'm guessing there's a loose connection inside. Because the charger works, the light is on the charger and the little pin inside the laptop for the charger is not loose, and the charging light doesn't come on on the laptop. Plus there should be battery power already because it had half way before it just turned itself off. The only way i could get it to work the last two times it went off was by shaking it and there was a small rattle inside. But this time it definately hasn't worked. I don't use the laptop anymore obviously cos it's broke but if i could get it fixed it'd be great.

Usual notice: USE THE FOLLOWING GUIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Crystal HD and nc2400 This is the easiest part of the guide.

I could put the same Broadcom Crystal HD card into the nc2400 without any problems. I tested the Crystal HD with youtube+XBMC and it worked flawlessly. 720p movie was played with XBMC at ~12% CPU load, youtube played HD movies flawlessly, but 720p still generated ~25%, 1080p ~50% CPU load. I don't know why the BIOS whitelisting did not block the card, it worked nicely. The downside of the nc2400 is the missing WWAN socket. It is needed to use WLAN usb adapter to have wireless network. Crystal HD and 2510p Prerequisites: 1.

Broadcom Crystal HD card 2. WLAN usb adapter or a WLAN mPCIe card compatible with the WWAN slot (e.g Ralink RT2571WF chipset based cards) 3. Working WLAN card in the WLAN mPCIe socket 4. Installing (it is required if you want to put WLAN card in the WWAN slot what is not whitelisted) 5. Buy Theoretical knowledge: The 2510p and newer HP laptops have whitelist of acceptable mPCIe cards for the WLAN/WWAN slots and there is an additional check to verify if the card in the slot is an actual WLAN card. The modded BIOS can eliminate the whitelist check, but the additional check remains. When the Broadcom card is not recognized as WLAN card in the mPCIe socket, it is disabled in boot time.

The DiY eGPU Setup helps to activate the disabled mPCIe slot with the Broadcom card, continue the boot to Windows and enjoying the accelerated HD playback. My setup: - 2510p laptop - Windows XP Home - Broadcom Crystal HD (BCM70012) - Advent 8115 Wireless Card for the WWAN slot (RT2571WF chipset) (- A WLAN card what is on the BIOS whitelist, but it is not needed anymore when the setup is done.) Note: It should be possible to use the Broadcom card with similar steps for Windows Vista/7. And most likely, the same or similar steps will work with other HP laptop models. VERY IMPORTANT! VERY IMPORTANT!

Put non-conductive scotch tape on the Broadcom and the WWAN card sides if they are not covered: This is extremely important because the 2510p's cover has some kind of metal on the inner side. When I put the Broadcom/WWAN card without tape into my laptop, the card did not work and the hard disk was not recognized for some time. I had to detach the cards from the mPCIe slot and reattach later. Luckily, the cards/hard drive/motherboard were not damaged. It was a stupid thing to forget. VERY IMPORTANT!

VERY IMPORTANT! Install DiY eGPU Setup: - - Download - Extract to C: eGPU directory - Run setup-disk-image.bat - After restarting the computer there is a 'DIY eGPU Setup' item in the Windows boot menu Use DiY eGPU Setup to overcome the BIOS limitations: - Switch off the laptop - Put a working WLAN card in the WLAN socket, the WWAN port is empty - Switch on the laptop - Start DiY eGPU Setup from the boot menu - Select the 'menu-based setup' in the new menu - Go to the mPCIe menu ->Save ports ->Select WLAN socket - Go the root of the menu and choose Reboot and switch off the laptop. - Replace the WLAN card with Broadcom - Switch on the laptop - Start the menu-based setup again as described above - Go to the mPCIe menu ->Restore ports ->Select WLAN socket and the Broadcom card should be recognized and seen on the Status window - Go to the mPCIe menu ->Save ports ->Select the socket with the Broadcom card again - If everything has worked fine, add the permanent anti-whitelisting to the setup.bat with the following steps, don't forget to change the hw ID to your Broadcom card (in my case 14e4:1612). Click to expand.- Save the setup.bat - Restart the computer Daily use of the anti-whitelisting: - Switch on the laptop - Start DiY eGPU Setup from the boot menu - Select the 'automated startup using setup.bat' in the new menu - Start Windows or other operating system from the boot menu Using a WLAN card in the WWAN socket (optional): - It is pretty straightforward, however, I had an issue in Windows XP. The driver of the WWAN card should be installed first before placing the card in the WWAN socket, otherwise the Windows is not able to install the driver and the WLAN/WWAN card as unknown device blocks the integrated Intel ethernet device.

- So install WLAN/WWAN driver ->switch off the laptop ->place the WLAN card in the WWAN socket ->switch on the laptop - I had to install for my RT2571WF based WLAN/WWAN card from the ->USB (RT257x/RT2671/RT520x) driver Fix the XBMC: Somehow the XBMC looks for some registration entries what can be missing after the installation of the Broadcom drivers. If the Crystal HD works with Adobe Flash, but it is not recognized in XBMC, download and put the following keys into your Windows registry: Installation under Linux Experiences I have Ubuntu Natty (32 bit) on my 2510p, but I tried Ubuntu Oneiric (64 bit) with the same experiences. Precise or other user-space crystalhd kernel module/firmware/library versions do not work with the Flash Player 11.x versions. I get instant crash of the flash plug-in or fallback to software rendering on 32 and 64 bit as well.

DiY eGPU Setup 1.x Check the Windows related part of the guide how to make the Crystal HD work in 2510p with DiY eGPU Setup, the same procedure should be done: saving the mPCIe state with a working WLAN card+update setup.bat. - Copy or extract the DiY eGPU Setup files into the directory /boot/eGPU.

Very important: To boot into the eGPU Setup, the eGPU-Setup-110b5.img file must be allocated on the hard drive in continuous space (no fragmentation). I found on the internet that it can not be done with ext4fs, however, I was able to do it by making 15 copies of this file and trying to map them in grub4dos command line mode. E.g 'map /1.img (hd3)'.

When the image file is fragmented, the grub4dos shows an error message about it. To boot into grub4dos command line, just specify a wrong menu.lst location by editing the eGPU Setup's grub2 menu item options. So make many copies of the eGPU-Setup-110b5.img file, try them until finding a suitable and move the right file into /boot/eGPU. - To set the permanent menu item to the grub2 bootloader, add these lines to the /etc/grub.d/10_linux. Click to expand. Other notes Results: - XBMC: works.

Vaio Onetime Password Keygen there. - Adobe Flash Player 10.3: works. When the laptop is suspended while the Crystal HD accelerates a Flash video, the Crystal HD card is not usable until the next reboot. Thus it is adviced to switch off the Crystal HD card via the indicator normally since it consumes some power and gives a lower risk to go suspend during playback.

(E.g the Adobe Flash Player opens the 360p and 480p streams with the Crystal HD card, but it does not make any sense and results no help in the lower CPU consumption.) Enjoy! Special thanks to nando! Without him, it could not be accomplished.