Help needed with tablet

[PCUSER]

Morning everyone. Please help me to get my Tablet working again.
Last night it was still working 100% fine like always. It had 32% battery power left when I shut it down. So this morning I plugged in the charger. When I plug in the charger it automatically boots. But not this morning. I left the charger in for 30 minutes and tried to switch it on manually. It is stone dead What could have gone wrong? Are there things I can check myself before I take it in to the pro's?
It is a HP Elitepad 900 stull running on windows 8.

 

[SilvRav]

removable battery? if so remove and leave out for 10 minutes, put back and see

warranties?

 

[rolanray]

Hold down the power button for 10 seconds usually that forces restart or something along those lines

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[PCUSER]

Thanks.
I will try both suggestions.
It was bought secondhand, I doubt there is any warantee left.

 

[rolanray]

- holding volume button in while powering on to go into HP system menu. Found that with a quick search, good luck recovering

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[DarrynB]

From here: HP Elitepad 900 won't boot. - HP Support Forum - 3433049
"Press Power button + Vol (+) to enter in blue screen. Don't do anything there. Turn off again by pressing Power. Now turn on the tablet again by pressing only the power. Windows should start as usual."

 

[Azurda]

Do you have a dog/cat that chews power cables?

 

[blueowl]

And check the power plug going into the unit - these power plugs have many contacts and are easy to break unfortunately.

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[PCUSER]

And check the power plug going into the unit - these power plugs have many contacts and are easy to break unfortunately.

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100% possible.
But the tablet does not start even without the charger connected, like it always could. The screen does not even flicker. It is stone dead.

 

[blueowl]

It would then only mean that the battery is discharged (empty), in addition to the plug problem.

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[PCUSER]

If I can't get it fixed...

Anybody know of any good contract deals where I can get one with a data bundle?
I see Macro has one on a 1GB contract for R225 PM. But this round I would prefer a Android Ipad. Vodacom preffered, but any other contract will be looked at.

 

[PCUSER]

Ok, the screen did show something now. a Battery, with a lightning bolt and a plug. This is with the charger plugged in. I have never seen this before. It used to just start up.
This might help in narrowing down the issue? I hope...

 

[MSI1104]

Ok, the screen did show something now. a Battery, with a lightning bolt and a plug. This is with the charger plugged in. I have never seen this before. It used to just start up.
This might help in narrowing down the issue? I hope...

Its charging now, only ever see that on my 6 year olds tablet He runs it down completely and forgets to charge it. You probably had a app running that ran the battery down.