HP 660lx wont turn on.

One of my aquaintences bought a 660lx off ebay. He tried to power it up but the screen remained black but the little green light lights up when he plugs the ac adapter in but that's it. It has no main battery, could that be the problem? if that is the problem is there any way to bypas that without buying a battery.

well, did you press the power button? lol

it should work without the battery too..

try to press reset too - it is at the bottom under a door, also if you can find a backup battery there, remove it along with the ac adapter, so that it does a full hard reset. maybe that helps..

Yes the unit should work just with the AC adaptor. I will reflect Cmonex's suggestions and recommend you soft reset the unit via the reset button and try again. I want to add that if the unit contains any peripeherals (PCMCIA card, Compact Flash Card, etc) then fully remove these also before further testing.

If that doesn't work then remove both the AC power and the backup battery cell for about 30 minutes to ensure a hard reset. Put the battery cell back in then plug in the AC adaptor and try again.

Let us know this goes.

Edited by Britty 2006-04-13 9:39 PM

While we are hoping the information above proves to be successful, it is worth mentioning that the screen may be the culprit. After the magic white smoke escaped from my HP 660LX, my screen died, but the unit powers up and I can even "see" it when I am serial connected to my PC through AS. I hope it's not a dead screen in your case.