But that's how it works. You left out make, model, how old so I can't do any research. Even with those details I usually pop in a new CMOS battery since it's too cheap a part to fiddle or discuss then do a generic reset (remove power, battery, press and hold the power button for 60 seconds, release, slip in battery, apply power and test.)
More details may show it's a model with known issues or something else.
The problem:
Was watching Netflix with it plugged in, as per usual. Mom came in and started talking to me, sometimes this happens, and laptop goes to sleep due to unuse.
Normally, I could move the touch pad or click buttons and it would turn back on.
This time, nope.
I tried everything. Closed it, pressed the power button. Held down the power button. Unplugged it, tried these things again. Took the battery out. Plugged it back in. Tried these things again.
Asked a friend, he said maybe the battery overcharged and to let it die. So I put the battery back in, let it sit a day or two, plugged it in and tried all these things again.
Nothing happened. (and no, it didn't give me a blue screen of death)
So I left it alone and decided to try to save my money to take it to a fixit shop or buy a new battery.
Well, life happened, and a year later I'm like, "Oh sh*t I never fixed my laptop" so I asked a different friend what he thought about it, including the advice from the other friend about the battery, and this guy said it sounded like it just died and that I should get a new one. (and then take its hard drive out and USB plug it into my new lappy so that I don't lose all my stuff
)
(So I am in the processing of looking for a new one, see my other thread) but now that I am on this forum of computer geeks and professionals, I'm wondering if it really *did* break and if so, why?
What does it sound like to you?

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