My laptop Asus N56J won't turn on. It just makes a tiny beep and there is no picture showing up at all.
My laptop Asus N56J won't turn on. It just makes a tiny beep and there is no picture showing up at all.
My 2013 Asus N56J used to work fine until recently. Sometimes it wouldn't turn on at all, but waiting a few minutes would finally make it start. Removing all USB cables helped before, making it start normally again. Now it won't start up at all. I hear the hard drive spinning, no screen, and no keyboard lights. After a while, I hear a single soft beep that repeats several times later on. The manual says this means a BIOS startup failure: one short beep means VGA detected and quick boot is set to disable; no keyboard detected. I tried starting in Safe Mode by holding the delete key down, but nothing happened. I also tried adding a USB keyboard to get into Safe Mode, which didn't work either. Are there any other ideas besides throwing it away? This is our non-profit laptop, and we need it working for several more months before we can buy a new one. Anything should I try if it starts up again? Saving my data isn't an issue because I backup regularly, and I have equipment to use the SSDs as external storage on my main laptop too. Forgot that: this laptop mostly acts like a desktop computer with a second monitor (duplicated screen) and an external keyboard and mouse. The connections for all those things are close at the top of the power button; the top and bottom parts of the laptop are split there a bit, which is fine because they've been like that for months already. When we use it as a desktop, we keep half-closed to avoid tension on them.
I hear that some SSDs spin fast but have no moving parts, so you can run your computer with one in it without losing data (like an old hard drive). Now I want to know what is actually going on? Is it the CPU fan not starting sometimes and then starting after a while? Maybe that means your power delivery or your power button is broken. Any other ideas besides throwing it away? This is our non-profit laptop, so we need it working for another few months before we can buy a new one. Since it has passed its warranty period, I should take it apart and check the motherboard. Look for blown or bulging capacitors and any burnt parts on the board. You might smell something burning if something got damaged.
Formulated that wrong. Tried to start it, no dice. Power just whirred but nothing else happened. Forced power off by holding the button down. Then waited a few hours or so before trying again. So it's not like after some time while running the system wakes up and kicks in on its own. The spinning sound started the moment I pushed that start button (which lights up normally). It just sounded exactly like listening to an old external hard drive, mostly coming from the side where the power button is. Several years ago, I actually replaced my original CD player with a solid-state drive in an official connector slot. So I put a new SSD as the operating system drive, and the older original SSD as my data drive (which I backed up regularly). I just took that old data drive out. Started the laptop and two things happened: first, the louder spinning sound is gone, and second, the laptop was running? I connected the data SSD to my main desktop as an extra drive and started backing everything back up again. Now what can I do while the laptop operates normally? Should I restart in safe mode and check the BIOS?
Update, a friend who loves tech and has lots of extra parts tried to find what's wrong: it seems the memory brick is basically dead already. That means the game ends right there. All our data was on removable drives, so nothing got lost. Thanks for sharing your ideas!