Hey scribbles!

Just a couple of questions:

What model Laptop?

Have your recently updated or changed any drivers?

Have you recently upgraded or changed any of your hardware (hard-drive, RAM, etc)?

Best regards,

Thurashen(Matt)

Hi

It's an Inspiron M5040. As it's brand new I haven't done anything to it! It barely has any files on it.

Thanks

Hmm.

Does it even boot to the BIOS screen or is there no display at all?

no display at all. I power it on and it just keeps beeping

OK.

Try these suggestions:

1. Take the batter out and try turning it on with just the ac adapter connected.

2. Take out the hard drive, leave it out and then turn on the computer. If it starts to POST without the hard drive, it may be faulty.

3. If you have more than one RAM stick, remove one and try booting with only one of them installed at a time.

4. If you only have one stick, download a small free program called memtest and burn it to a cd, dvd or usb (the download comes with an installer which puts it directly onto a USB) to make a bootable disk. If you can boot to it by pressing F12 as soon as your computer starts, and then select the media on which is was installed, let the test run overnight. It take a long time as it is a thou rough test which will find any errors your memory may have.

Faulty memory may prevent a computer from starting.

Best regards.

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