Dell Laptop won't turn on

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Dell Laptop won't turn on

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evilrich View Member Profile	Jan 10 2005, 12:44 PM Post #1
New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 10-January 05 Member No.: 9,170	Hello all, I've got a problem with my laptop. Back in Oct, I took the laptop on my honeymoon to NZ and it worked wonderfully. After the trip, I continued using it as normal for perhaps a week then closed it down as normal, put the pc back in its carrying case and have not used it since. Just the other day, I took it out to use it again and it won't even turn on. I press the power button, a few lights flash (power, harddrive, battery indicator) the fans start and then nothing. The lights go out and the fans stop. This takes all of about 3 seconds. I even tried getting it to boot to bios but that won't work either. Any ideas? I'm not sure if its a motherboard problem, a power problem or whatever else. It's a Dell Inspiron 8000 with 128RAM running Windows ME.

Grinler View Member Profile	Jan 11 2005, 12:41 PM Post #2
Bleep Bleep! Group: Admin Posts: 29,367 Joined: 24-January 04 From: USA Member No.: 3	Extremely stupid question, but have you tried charging it? -------------------- Lawrence

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