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    M1330 powers on for a second then just dies, any ideas?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by fknelite, Nov 22, 2009.

  1. fknelite

    fknelite Notebook Consultant

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    If you press the power button, you can hear the hard drive starting to spin up, then it acts as if the power was just cut from it and it dies. I am assuming something on the motherboard is just broken, just figured I would ask to see if anyone else has any other ideas. I have tried 2 different batteries and 2 different chargers.
     
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  2. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If it has the 8400m or 8600m then I would guess the GPU died.
    Those are known faulty.

    I think dell repairs that for free even out of warranty because they new about the problem when they sold the notebook to you.

    Or you could do something stupid:
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  3. Cin'

    Cin' Anathema

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    Are you out of warranty now? If, it's at all GPU related they did extend the warranty one year on that (for the 8400/8600 Nvidia faults).

    Cin...
     
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  4. fknelite

    fknelite Notebook Consultant

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    It has already had the motherboard replaced once due to the 8400 GPU issue, think that could be the issue again?
     
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    It might be. How long ago was your Mboard replaced? And, it's worth it to call up Dell again to have this checked out..if you think it's related.


    Cin...
     
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  6. traveller

    traveller Notebook Deity

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    I'ts not as stupid as you seem to think*, others have tossed their entire mobos into the oven... :eek:


    Thx to BlackRussian & Hep! for the link :cool:

    EDIT: *Ok, now I realize you were j/k - thx + rep for the link :D
     
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    Here's to the pioneers of the world....the very first person that said, you know what; I'm going to take my useless motherboard and put it in the oven and see if it fixes anything. Genius. It reminds me of the first person on the planet that came across a cow and said; you know what, I'm going to squeeze those things dangling and whatever comes out of it, I'm going to drink it! :D
     
    callanish, Nov 22, 2009
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