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AzonWehttam
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June 7th, 2004 21:00
WARNING: i8600 Potential design flaw?
Looking through the messages on this board, and using previous experience, I have determined that the motherboards of the Inspiron 8600 have a SERIOUS flaw, that prevents the system from being powered-on at random times.
The signs of this are only three LEDs (Numlock, Capslock, and Scroll lock) and the Power LED lighting up then disappearing, along with the system shutting down. After awhile, the problem seems to resolve itself until the next time you boot.
If you have this problem, run the Diagnostics CD/Partition and do a Processor test (system-wide if the Processor test comes out as PASS more than 2-3 times). Mine came out as an L2 Cache problem, so yours may turn out differently/the same.
BIOS updates will not fix this problem either.
If this is not a design flaw as I suspect, then I apologize to Dell for creating chaos, but if it is what I fear then a whole lot of problems may ensue.
The signs of this are only three LEDs (Numlock, Capslock, and Scroll lock) and the Power LED lighting up then disappearing, along with the system shutting down. After awhile, the problem seems to resolve itself until the next time you boot.
If you have this problem, run the Diagnostics CD/Partition and do a Processor test (system-wide if the Processor test comes out as PASS more than 2-3 times). Mine came out as an L2 Cache problem, so yours may turn out differently/the same.
BIOS updates will not fix this problem either.
If this is not a design flaw as I suspect, then I apologize to Dell for creating chaos, but if it is what I fear then a whole lot of problems may ensue.
Compman2000
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Posted June 8th, 2004 19:00
All tests came out fine for me.."All tests came out fine for me.."
Me too - passed with flying colors.
I too have noticed the startup problem a couple of times and both times it turned out to be when I woke the 8600 up from hibernation and did not have the USB dongle for the wireless Logitech mouse inserted (the dongle was in place when I put it into hibernation) that the 8600 passed the BIOS boot but would not boot into Windows and just sat there with a black screen. To fix, I inserted the dongle in the USB port and shut the machine down and restarted - all was well then. I have had this happen twice now and both times it was related to USB.
Mark
My new I8600 just started this after two weeks; however, it is not related to hibernation since the machine was only hibernated once to make sure it was set up properly. It happens on battery, AC or in the D-Dock. Will be calling Dell in the next day or so to see what is up. Mine passed all diagnostics with flying colors and runs fine. It just is grumpy starting now and then.
Compman2000
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Posted June 7th, 2004 22:00