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ASUS TUF Dash F15: Display won't turn on, battery indicator flashes white.

Sun, 03 May 2026 13:42:36 -0700

Context:
I left my laptop on overnight, and it shut itself down from low battery by the time I woke up. Perfectly normal, I've done that multiple times. Laptop worked perfectly fine before this problem occured.
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To my dismay, when I plugged the charger in and turned the laptop back on, I was greeted with a black screen, followed by the battery indicator light blinking white 3 times, in approx 5second intervals.
I thought it had been the battery not charging, but when I turned the laptop off, the battery indicator glowed orange, indicating that it was in fact charging like normal.

I've disconnected the battery by opening the laptop up, held the power button for 30 seconds, thinking the problem was static in the components, but that too did nothing.
I did notice a bit later however, that all the fans and internal components sounded like they were running.
Finally, I tried hooking the laptop up to an external display. As I suspected, it worked.
No signs of the original laptop display being detected, though. I was wondering if I could get the original laptop display working again.

I'd appreciate if anybody could diagnose the problem, and help me with a fix, if any. Cheers!

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⟐ Commented 五月 03, 2026 at 13:42 GMT-7

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⟐ Answered 五月 03, 2026 at 12:37 GMT-7

HP Pavilion x360 14-ek0033dk: performance of my hp laptop

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My sister has an Acer VN7-591G laptop that won't boot (black screen, no output to HDMI)

She wants me to get the photos off her hard drive.

No problem I thought. I've popped out the HDD, but it is empty other than an old "iMovie Backup" directory.

Looking at the specs, it is supposed to be a dual HDD/SDD, so I assumed that the Windows installation and all her photos are on the SDD

However, there is no SSD in the machine! According to this guide:

https://www.myfixguide.com/manual/acer-a...

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How, if there is nothing but a few random files on the HDD was this machine ever booting? Is there somewhere else that Acer hide the SDD? I certainly can'y see anything...

It is so strange - it looks like it had an SSD (As the hard drive is empty), but its not there! What am I missing?!?

TIA

⟐ Commented 五月 03, 2026 at 11:39 GMT-7

HP EliteBook 845 G8: Why is does my pc consume much data

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ASUS ROG Strix GL503VD-DB71: I turn it on, but in a few second, it turns off immediately

Sun, 03 May 2026 04:03:23 -0700

I really appreciate any kinds of help.

So i have Asus ROG GL503VD,

As i said on the title, i turn it on then in a few second it turns off immediately without even showing ROG logo.

Here are the events:

I hold the start button
The rainbow light below the keyboard starts glowing as usual, The light that show the battery condition (battery indicator light) is also glowing, The screen is still black.
Soon after, it turns off immediately. Also, i heard a laser gun star wars sound effect in the process. The rainbow light & the battery indicator light are turned off.

Before this thing happened:

I shutdown it by using start button (hot shutdown ? Idk the name really). I was in a hurry.

I’ve tried:

Plug out ac adapter. Anyway, i still can recharge the battery. I noticed the battery indicator lamp turned red (means not 100%), so i recharged it for a while, then it came back to white (100%)
Hold start button 40 sec
Plug out the drive (hdd) (Only the hard drive local disk D, not the ssd one, which is the local disk C).
Plug out the battery. It’s kind of complicated, because the battery can’t be plugged out easily (you know, there are some laptop that the battery can be plugged out easily, like you don’t have to open the body).
Plug in the ac adapter
Plug in the battery
Plug in the hdd

I’ve tried so many combinations

5 then 2, doesn’t work

5 then 1, doesn’t work

4 then 5, doesn’t work

3, 4 then 5, doesn’t work

3,4 then 6,7, doesn’t work

3,4 then 6,7 then 5, doesn’t work

And etc…

Please, i need your help guys, i’m not an official tech guy, i know little about this thing…

⟐ Commented 五月 03, 2026 at 4:03 GMT-7

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