D630 won't start up

Guy's

came down this morning to find my D630 won't start,

|No power light or anyother lights and the screen stays blank and no HDD noise can be heard. I held the on/off button down for 20 sec's to force a restart but stiil no joy

swapped the battery for a known good one -same thing

I've searched the Dell support but nothing as yet

MB gone perhaps :-(

Cheers

Richard

 

Try taking out and replacing the RAM. Sometimes the contacts oxidize which removal / replacement will fix and, if the BIOS can read the RAM properly then nothing starts.

John

 

many thanks for the reply but as nothing happens at all I would have thought the start process would begin then shut down on 'no ram' rather than as mine is -bricked :-(

 

I'm aware that a RAM problem normally causes a few flashing lights. However, computers don't normally terminally die overnight unless subjected to external influences (eg power surge, dropped). Dismantle and reassembly may clear a poor contact somewhere and get it working.

John

 

Sounds not good. How about pulling the battery and trying with charger power only. Also remove any other connections and devices that you can (such as ODD) in the event a bad item is pulling everything down.

GK

 

Tried everything but still dead .

Phoned Dell support for assistance and questioned the warranty as some MB's were known to overheat and fail due to the graphics.

He said no warranty (as the Dell website states) but I questioned that and he came back with the fact that the warranty runs out in October this year so an engineer will be coming round my house tomorrow to fix FOC!

I know Dell get a lot of stick but I can't fault them

Cheers

Richard

 

The warranty on the motherboard has been extended for an additional year for D620 and D630 with Nvidia graphics. It doesn't show officially, but once the rep is aware of this, they will send out a motherboard without issue.

 

That's why I questioned the warranty. However the record shows the start date as 4 October 2007 and as it's a 3 yr warranty the end date should have been Oct 10. However it stated "No warranty with this unit" Which is why he went away and looked into it. Then came back and said their engineer will be out tomorrow (today) to fix it as it is a 3 yr onsite warranty not RTB

as an update. I tried it this morning just to see and it started up. However it was going a bit mad and half the keyboard doesn't work. It restarts itself again and again then some fully beeps come up

Thanks to all


Richard

 

Howdy,

Old thread. did you fix it?


I had a similar problem with my XFR D630.

It all of a sudden would not power up at all......... pressing the power button would only cause the power "light" to flash briefly and go out.

Strangely, it now powers up after being off for a few days. battery state or power supply connection didn't seem to make any difference.

I have no warranty either. so the fix is all on me. I can buy a new mobo from ebay I suppose, but I'd like to know if someone else has had this problem.


If it had not started working, my plan was (and still is) to take it apart and re-seat ALL the connections including the CPU to see if a poor connection was causing this.



OS: Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7-default x86_64
System: openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 3"

Vendor: Intel Corporation
Model: 965 GM
2D driver: intel



Anyone else with a problem like this?



Cheers,


Rick

 

It is possible there is a connection problem with the CPU. It wouldn't hurt to disassemble the system and visually inspect for problems. You can find the disassembly instructions here:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/lata6400xfr/en/