Laptop has problems starting up if sat in a not very warm room - is that even possible, and how to...
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I have a Packard Bell LM85 laptop that is not new (about 8 years). It is a great laptop and I want to keep it. Some time ago it started to have problems with starting up. When I press the power button: The power PED turns on The montherboard fan spins up The hard drive spins up and shows access activity for a second (a separate LED) The CD is polled (the noise is audible; there is no CD inserted) And nothing else happens. The screen back light does not turn on, nothing appears on the screen, the hard drive keeps spinning but shows no further access activity. The laptop will then sit in this "zombie mode" indefinitely. I've tried turning on printing of verbose BIOS information on a startup, but nothing prints (apparently the issue occurs before the BIOS starts its check). I've tried