D630 won't start up

Thanks for that.

Mine is the XFR D630 though. An earlier model I suppose. I do have the service manual for it.......... and I've had it apart before to install RAM etc.

It's pretty easy to disassemble & reassemble.

So far, it's restarted normally 5 or 6 times now.

 

Oops, sorry, wrong link.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd630x/en/SM/XFR_D630_Service_Manual.pdf

 

No Problem. I found the right one pretty quickly!

 

Yes he did. I was out working but he asked my wife "Does your child like orange juice, this keypads a bit sticky?" turns out the most likely cause was split drink getting inside. The engineer changed the keyboard and did some 'stuff' and it's worked fine since.

Richard

 

Thanks Richard.


I think my problem may have been a bad ethernet port on a cable/dsl modem at a hotel.

ALL the problems started with that modem connected to the computer. With it disconnected, it hasn't happened again.


I had REALLY strange errors before it started having problems. but it started with the ethernet port becoming disabled/disappeared etc.

It did it whether I was booted up to Winders or Linux. After a while, it wouldn't start at all.

I don't understand how an Ethernet port could affect actual startup except ALL computers have the ability to "wake-up"/"start-up" via the ethernet port!

Although it's disabled on this computer in the bios setup, I suppose it's possible a "problem modem" or ethernet port on a modem/router, etc..... *could* cause a start-up/power-up problem......


I wish I knew more about these type of problems!


That's my story! And I'm sticking to it!!!


I'm glad your's was fixed!


Cheers,


Rick