Vostro 1700 dead

Hi
My Vostro 1700 just shut off last night and it seems dead to me, just checking that there is nothing else I can try to try and revive it

basically all that happens now is the power light flickers for a few seconds and then the battery indicator and then it just goes off. The hard drives don't spin up and the screen doesn't come on

any thoughts?
thanks

 

Might be your 8600m.
It's got the known faulty core.

Did you try taking out the power cord and the battery, then holding power button for 1 min. then put back battery and power cord, then try to turn it on?

Also try it just on AC power.
Try re-seating the ram.
Try only 1 stick and so on...

 

I would start with removing / replacing the RAM, one module at a time.

RAM problems cause the brief hint of life at boot since when the BIOS finds a problem with the RAM everything stops.

John

 

have tried everything here with no success... any other suggestions before i give in and just call Dell?
I was aware of the GPU possibly being affected by the well known issue but I didn't really think it would have this effect on my laptop. I have never had weird lines or corruption on the display and have always used recommended nvidia drivers, not betas/modded ones and I have never overclocked it. Is it still possible that its failure could just cause the whole system to stop working? Have other people experienced this?

 

ram is a common culprit, but sounds to me like the gpu...let us know.

 

I had the same exact problem about a year ago. It was running one minute. The next it was dead. After trying a bunch of things, I called Dell and they sent a tech to replace the motherboard. That fixed it. As a precaution, he also gave me a new power adapter. He said at the time that mine was only the second 1700 that he had seen needing a new MB (although he had replaced a bunch of Vostro 1500 MBs). To be safe, I've since purchased a Cooler Master NotePal U2 Notebook Cooler because this laptop gets hot. It works great at keeping the temps down...

 

call dell. dells seem to have a sequence of lights that indicate error codes, much like how old desktops had the beep sequence on startup. the tech on the phone might be able to give a diagnosis based on the light sequence

 

Mine had a similra issue where it just shut off and all that happened when I pressed the power button was an orange light flashed and nothing happened. Turned out to be a dead ac adapter as I took it to work and used the one we had there and it powered on fine.