Recent content by haedendog

As of a couple days ago I got a new old stock board in and removed the battery and added my own and this fixed the issue. It seems it was in fact a dead board.

Update: at this point I have also managed to power up the board outside the case, unplugged from the daughter usb/audio/sd card board and with no keyboard or monitor attached using only power connector, power switch connector, and external display cable and the same exact results are produced...

Thanks for the recommendation. I did actually remove the heatsink too during my first teardown and reapply paste to the gpu and cpu. This unfortunately didn't change anything.

Hello all, Recently I picked up a Gateway KAV60 off ebay that was listed for parts because I was confident it would be fine since I've had good luck recently with systems being listed for parts that actually worked fine. Anyway, this laptop arrived with no battery and no charger, but I already...