My laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 5, 15IIL05. I can provide more details, but that should be a good starting point.
I was working with an Arduino project. The Arduino was hooked up to my laptop via USB. I though I needed more power, so I found a cable that fit. I forgot to see how many volts the output was (24v) and the moment I connected the power cable, my laptop went completely blank. I was thinking that it might be that I fried / short circuited my laptop.
I disconnected everything from my laptop and proceeded to try to restart it. The laptop went into recovery mode with first trying to fix the disk. The process competed and I was able to log in. However, some sort of Lenovo Update software, which I had never seen before, popped up. Before I could read what it was saying, my laptop once again completely shut down. I was able to eventually get to the screen that talked about not being able to repair the PC and to either go into advance settings or to restart. I chose to restart.
I have tried: power cycling, power cycling w/ ac power, using the novo (boot button) button on the side of my computer, looking into CMOS and temporarily removing the CMOS battery to try to reset CMOS, using HDMI to try to see if there is video output, and waiting for a while to see if it was hot. None of these things helped at all.
After a few more attempts to regain control over my laptop, with some attempts leading to logging in to my computer with it shutting down again, I got to the point where the screen would never light up. Usually when I power up my laptop, the screen would light up just a bit before it turned on.
The regular process for booting up my laptop would be: power indicator lights up, keyboard lights up, screen illuminates, Lenovo logo appears, circle thinking symbol, and then home screen. Now, my laptop only has a power indicator along with the keyboard lighting up. The fan also comes on for a short moment, but then both the keyboard lights and the fan turn off. I am left with just the power indicator turned on.
Thank you for spending the time just to read this. Please let me know if you have any ideas. The last thing I want to do is to spend money.
I was working with an Arduino project. The Arduino was hooked up to my laptop via USB. I though I needed more power, so I found a cable that fit. I forgot to see how many volts the output was (24v) and the moment I connected the power cable, my laptop went completely blank. I was thinking that it might be that I fried / short circuited my laptop.
I disconnected everything from my laptop and proceeded to try to restart it. The laptop went into recovery mode with first trying to fix the disk. The process competed and I was able to log in. However, some sort of Lenovo Update software, which I had never seen before, popped up. Before I could read what it was saying, my laptop once again completely shut down. I was able to eventually get to the screen that talked about not being able to repair the PC and to either go into advance settings or to restart. I chose to restart.
I have tried: power cycling, power cycling w/ ac power, using the novo (boot button) button on the side of my computer, looking into CMOS and temporarily removing the CMOS battery to try to reset CMOS, using HDMI to try to see if there is video output, and waiting for a while to see if it was hot. None of these things helped at all.
After a few more attempts to regain control over my laptop, with some attempts leading to logging in to my computer with it shutting down again, I got to the point where the screen would never light up. Usually when I power up my laptop, the screen would light up just a bit before it turned on.
The regular process for booting up my laptop would be: power indicator lights up, keyboard lights up, screen illuminates, Lenovo logo appears, circle thinking symbol, and then home screen. Now, my laptop only has a power indicator along with the keyboard lighting up. The fan also comes on for a short moment, but then both the keyboard lights and the fan turn off. I am left with just the power indicator turned on.
Thank you for spending the time just to read this. Please let me know if you have any ideas. The last thing I want to do is to spend money.