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Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne
This would cause it to not turn on, but only beep?
I'm at school at the moment, but how would I go about blowing dust out? Do I take the bottom off it?
This is a laptop, if I didn't say that already.
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Fonix is right... that will sometimes work. (Although I would suggest sucking the dirt out first...then if you can reverse your air direction then blow the rest out.)
But since you let it sit for 3 hours and then it still did this it would seem that the damage may already be done. In 3 hours time if the board was too hot to start back then it should have cooled off by then. Definitely worth a try though.
Back in the good ole days when the system shut down that fast and started beeping it meant that the problem was on the motherboard. Once the system boots through CMOS (Do they even have that anymore) then the drive starts to boot up etc.
It sounds like your computer is not getting out of the initial boot of the motherooard and has never even had a chance to begin booting the hard drive and firing up the OS.