laptop won't boot after new motherboard

[keizergirl]

My laptop won't boot up at all. Whenever I try any of the following, the power light turns on for a few seconds then shuts off. The next time I try to turn it on, nothing happens at all. Here is what I've tried: two different motherboards (they were refurbished, so I thought the first time, it might be a motherboard problem). I have tried different DIMMs in both slots, a different hard drive, a different power supply, no power supply, a different battery, no battery, testing all the screws, testing the connections for the keyboard and touchpad. The only other thing I can think to try is the processor, but if I'm wrong, I hate to waste the money. Can anyone help? By the way, it might help to know the reason I was swapping out the motherboard in the first place was because windows would only load in safe mode, but when I took the hard drive out and put it in another laptop, windows loaded just fine and when I took the hard drive from the good laptop and put it in my troubled laptop, I got the same problem. And after trying everything else I could think of, I tried swapping motherboards.

 

[ski]

Swapping out MB's and HD's is not the recommended way to solve a problem with a system that starts only in Safe mode.

Reinstall the original MB and HD, and see if restoring an earlier Registry using scanreg /restore fixes things for Win 98, or a system restore works for Win ME, 2000, or XP.

If no luck, then do a clean boot to troubleshoot the problem.

 

[GOLCPL]

Also what kinda CPU I have had alot of AMD CPU's when on a newly flashed motherboard or new motherboard do the same try setting the FSB jumper to 100mhz like a Duron then after it boots up turn off and set to normal settings, sometimes this is due to the memory being set to High of a Freq. in bios