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Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1200. It worked fine until recently it would not turn on. Its not the power source, because the green light on the power cable is on. When I turn it on, the power light comes on, and all the green lights come on for about 3 seconds, then it turns back off. Any help on fixing this? Maybe hardware failure?
You may have a completely dead battery. Try removing the battery from the laptop and try powering up with just the AC adaptor. If this works then you know that either the battery needs charging (so leave the adaptor plugged in and the laptop off)or the battery needs to be replaced.
Jason
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check the loading light, usually is orange. check if its flashing during the boot up. if not, then maybe the HD is dead or mobo.
OR, mayb virus. my friend has done this before. after open a file from his email, his PC automatically shut down, and after that. it cant reboot again. the laptop is on, the windows just stopped loading. nothing appeared on the screen, all he saw was black screen, not even intro screen.Wins 98 SE, intel celeron 450MHZ, 128MB pc 100.
6GB HD. ATI rage 128.
24x cd-rom. 8x2x8 cd-rw.
"You know what burns my ass? A flame about this high."
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Well I can confirm its getting power, and I had Norton AV 2006 installed. All four LED's light up for about 10 seconds
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Some Dells with a totally dead battery are not usable just plugged in. THe symptoms youdescribe light comes on and quickly goes off fits. Many Dell batteries have a white button which, when pressed, will light up to 5 LEDS on the batery. Check this and see what you get. You have to remove the battery to do this.
You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users
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I have a Dell Latitude, and I had the same exact problem several months back. After much work trying to diagnose the problem, it happened to be the RAM sockets. If you have 1 stick of RAM, switch it from Slot A to Slot B and try again. That's what I did with my latitude, and it hasn't ran better.
BTW, if you have 2 sticks of RAM, take the 1 out that's in Slot A, and leave the other one in Slot B. If it still dosn't work, take that 1 stick out that's in Slot B, and put the other stick in Slot A again.
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