Evening all, I have a Dell D610 laptop that's not working and I hope someone here could point me in the right direction.....

 

 

Symptoms....

 

Firstly it froze and had problems switching it off. Then when switched back on again the following day all three lights lite, then turned off. So I did a search on net and after following various leads I decided that the motherboard was shot. So guaranteed working, used, laptop base (case, motherboard, fan) assembly was obtained and I've just fitted the old ram, processor, heatsink, hard drive, DVD drive and screen and turned her on....... All three lights come on, go off then the Caps Lock light starts to flash for about 10 seconds then goes off and the laptop dies!

 

Any ideas? I did use new thermal paste when I installed the heatsink, and cleaned off the old properly first.

 

TIA

 

Dave

Sounds like it went into Bootlock, ie your bios has been wiped.

Is there a solution for that?

Is there a solution for that?

 

Most of the time no, but it could be other faults mate, sometimes it can mean one of your ram sticks is shot, or your on board graphics card has died.

Actually sounds like memory failure to me. Hmm, we use alot of D610 for clients and I have seen one do something similar to that before when it had some ahem, fluid, interaction. However the fluid had actually killed the stick of memory replaced it and the laptop lived again :)

Cheers guys, I'll have a look at the ram then first

Well, well.... It has 768MB ram in it, and I'd swapped them round when I rebuilt it, putting the 512 in slot one (under the keyboard) and the 256 in slot two (on the rear for easier access later to upgrade). I've just removed the 256 card and the laptop is working again. So I'll be on the lookout for a replacement 512 card then :D

 

Thanks again for your help guys, it's appreciated :bow:

 

Dave

Well, well.... It has 768MB ram in it, and I'd swapped them round when I rebuilt it, putting the 512 in slot one (under the keyboard) and the 256 in slot two (on the rear for easier access later to upgrade). I've just removed the 256 card and the laptop is working again. So I'll be on the lookout for a replacement 512 card then :D

 

Thanks again for your help guys, it's appreciated :bow:

 

Dave

 

No worries, i shouldn't of jumped to bios lock haha.

No, thanks I really mean it, after all it's Karen's laptop, and she's got mine at the moment, so I want it back :D

Ah good good glad its all working again. Sadly I would wager that the original "base" of the laptop is working.

Yeah you're probably right :rolleyes:

But I did discover that the connector for the BIOS battery had parted company from the motherboard as well!!