Re: Gateway Solo 1450 - No power on and Battery LED glows...Any solution?

Seeker wrote:
I can not turn it on. When battery is installed or the AC adaptor is
plugged in the Orange 'battery charging' LED glows, but the switch
will not work at all.

It looks like from previous threads that people replaced the
motherboard and that solved the problem, but did anyone ever find out
what the exact issue with the motherboard is?

Thanks,
Matt

This is a characteristic problem with the entire Solo series, and particularly plagued the early Solo 9100XL. It might be a capacitor issue, but the solution was always a mainboard replacement.

Q
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