Good morning all,
Last night I had my razer blade 14 (2017) on like normal, went away for a little bit and came back to a laptop that will not turn on no matter what I try.
I can get to the razer logo with the press F12 for boot options text, etc screen sometimes. Other times, only the keyboard lights up and I get a slowly flashing green power indicator with nothing on the screen at all. When attempting to boot from the SSD, it will sometimes say preparing automatic repair, but will go no further. Other times, it will just show the razer logo or shut the system back off. Additionally, I cannot boot from any USB drive (in any port, regardless of BIOS settings). When attempting to boot from Ubuntu USB drive it gets to the screen to load Ubuntu and then when I press enter, black screen (backlight on) and nothing else. Memtest and Windows USB drives have similar results, which is surprising because usually memtest works just about anywhere. Memtest will go through all of the text but will never show the splash screen.
I have tried just about everything from removing battery, holding down power button, combinations with unplugging power adapter, removing SSD, resetting BIOS settings, etc and no luck with any of it. Obviously being a few years old now, the laptop is out of warranty so I am not sure what my options are. Its looking like a motherboard problem and I dont particularly want to pay a bunch of money to have a laptop that is 3 years old fixed. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Update: For anyone who cares, after some testing and more research, it looks like the PCH died. Apparently this is a very common issue with 2016/2017 blades. Poor engineering on Razer's part, hence their poor reliability reputation. There is absolutely NO excuse for this on a laptop at this price point. Would be one thing if Razer was a "new company" but they aren't. Between the issues with razer's compatibility, software issues, and hardware failures, it makes it hard to want to buy anything else from them again. Razer promotes itself as "the best", yet cuts corners in so many places. Fortunately, I will be fixing this issue myself. Everything I read says Razer charges over $1000 to replace the whole motherboard, and honestly, replacing a PCH is not that hard or expensive.
same here - did you ever find a solution? how did you figure out the PCH was the issue?
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