As I was boxing up the laptop I decided to give it one last chance. I then reluctantly phoned Dell to arrange an expensive out-of-warranty repair. So being seriously miffed, I didn’t bother to put the battery back in and put my laptop in the draw for 24 hours. So I tried you FLEA power solution 3 times, but it didn’t work.
I was surprised when the screen came on and displayed the 3 RGB colours in sequence. I managed to check my LCD by pressing the power button and the ‘D’ key to force the inbuilt screen diagnostic test. 2 Orange LED flashes, 7 White LED flashes). My laptop was ‘pretending’ to have a LCD failure and wouldn’t boot (i.e. Please share your experiences with us below.īrilliant solution. If your Inspiron is still under warranty you can take it back to have it fixed or replaced It’s normally found on the bottom of the laptop. Just have your service tag (a 7 character code) ready when you call. You can call the customer care or chat with them on Facebook, they had me try a couple of things when I contacted them. Sometimes it may be an internal error and the problem may persist then you may need to take it to back to the Dell expert. You may need to press Fn+F8 key to switch the display to the secondary monitor.
If you have an HDMI cable connect the laptop using the HDMI cable and see if it will switch on on the secondary monitor For example the fans are spinning and the lights are but for some reason it wont switch on. On showing Black screenĪnother occurrence is when the laptop seem to be on but the screen is black. NB don’t blow directly as this might cause the fan to spin faster than intended and cause more harm than good. You can use a can of compressed air to blow vents to the fan which might dislodge the dust
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I had watched a movie the previous night until the computer had hibernated when the battery was low.