Hello, My dell inspiron 1501 is not starting. When i press the power button, only the power led glows, and it stays as it is and then nothing happens. The processor led does not glow even once. The monitor screen stays absolutely blank. I can hear the sound of the fan. The laptop is heating up like before. But nothing appears on the screen. This problem is coming for the past 5 days. But sometimes the laptop does start, like once in 100 tries. And once it starts then it gives no problems. Also when it starts, it is not like the normal startup. First the power light glows, then about 15 seconds later, the bootup screen shows. It is not like the normal cases when the bootup screen used to immediately appear. I have changed the RAM also. It is definitely not a RAM issue. Please help me. I also took the laptop to a local technician. He told me that the BJ chip on the motherboard has gone faulty. But he did not even open the laptop. He just saw the problem and said so. And he is asking for a lot of money to replace it. I dont know, i am not able to trust him. Can you guys give me any suggestions please?

remove the ram and start the laptop : do you hear any beeps ??? our patience is big

Woah..! That was a quick response. I just took out the RAM and tried powering on... There were no beeps. It is still the same.

seems that either the processor or the motherboard are bad, sorry to say if the ram is out, the system should beep and to beep, needs a processor working, sorry to say our patience is big

Ok.. Thanks for the quick replies.. I guess I will have to shed out a lot of money..

you can call somebody to test them maybe you`ll need a processor and you buy a whole mobo so, considerate before spending $$$ Cheers our patience is big

Alright. I'll do that. Thanks.. :)