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Inspiron 5150 will not boot / post
Hello,
I am working on an Inspiron 5150 that I suspect has a defective mobo. The laptop will not boot up, even to a post position. No beeps, but the battery light will blink amber 10 times when the power switch is pressed. I can't hear the HD spinning up.
I have tried:
1) changing around the memory
2) using a different power supply from a similar Dell laptop
3) attaching an external monitor to make sure that it wasn't video LCD issues.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Unfortunately, the laptop is out of warrantee.
Thank you.
Spencer
fenderguitarguy
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Posted March 14th, 2005 17:00
I would say motherboard, you should start looking on ebay for a replacement.- I tried to boot up without the battery, as well as with the battery. Also, with an alternate, known good power supply. I didn't have a spare battery to swap out.As for swapping around the memory, there were two boards... I did not have any other memory on hand, so I swapped the existing memory around assuming that the odds of both memory boards failing is unlikely. Also, looking at other postings for the Inspiron 5150, it seems that mobo problems are not uncommon. It figures that it is only a couple of months out of warrantee. Murphy comes through again.Thanks for the e-Bay idea. Hadn't really considered it, but since everything else is in fairly good condition, finding one with a bad screen & swapping boards around may work out as the least expensive fix.Thank you.Spencer
- probably is the power supply, but to be safe i'd remove all memory, harddrive, optical drives, modems and wireless cards, and essentially anything you can out of the computer.Then see if it will post at all. If not, then i agree either mobo or processor, more likely start with the mobo.
Steve_Tiger
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Posted March 14th, 2005 20:00
It's seem like you have same problem as many other users...As soon as the warranty expired, the motherboard will die...search this forum, you will see many other users' pain (like me). I just send to AQS for repair, it will cost $150-$180 to fix this problem. I owned Toshiba for 3 yrs without a single glitch. It so frustrate that this laptop is not reliable enough for long term use.
I have to write off the Dell desktop from my company buy list from now on.
- My computer just as this situation, it won't boot, BIOS Post can't finish even I remove allHDD,DVD except motherboard and graphic card and keyboard, so It must be motherboardor graphic card (nVidia Go5200 64M) hardware problem.I emailed dell and they said my computer out of warranty, I believe this is Dell's design problem,Motherborad failure or graphic card failure. My 5150 just used 15 month, replace AC adaptor, so many trouble, this maybe my last Dell until Dell can improve costumer satifaction and improve products reliability.I searched googles and find lots of message related to 5150 failure and some angry users group is joined together to make law action , hope dell could realize the 5150 design problem and give costumer satified solution, keep the dell user confidence for their future business., don't give public the impression that Dell = cheap but unreliable.My toshiba notebook used 4 years now, never call them for repair and work perfect.another Fujishu notebook worked for 3 years and also no any problem.Though dell is somewhat cheap at first stage, but get you so many trouble afterward and waste a lots of time to deal with repair, really don't worth the money you saved at first stage.
- your best bet is to have it evaluated by a third-party notebook repair shop -- you're highly unlikely to get anything free from dell as you're out of warranty. that said, dell will replace the damaged parts if you feel like paying an arm and a leg
plnelson
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Posted March 14th, 2005 17:00