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    M1330 won't power on.

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rpinson, Nov 29, 2011.

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    A few months ago, the ac adapter stopped charging the laptop. Once the battery died, there was nothing else I could do at the time and since I had another computer, I didn't worry about it. I recently bought a new Dell ac adapter thinking that was the problem, but it still won't power on. The battery is fairly new as well and was working fine before it stopped charging. Like most others, I've had 2 mb replacements but the light on the ac adapter doesn't go out when I plug it in like it seems to do when that is the problem. I tried holding the power button for 30 seconds and then reinserting the battery but that didn't help either.

    Any ideas now?
     
    rpinson, Nov 29, 2011
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    rpinson Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any thoughts? Am I going to need motherboard #4??
     
    rpinson, Dec 6, 2011
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    try reseating the memory DIMMS and using one at a time in the different slots
     
    dave-p, Dec 6, 2011
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    Thanks. I'll give this a shot today. Really don't want to have to replace the MB again.
     
    rpinson, Dec 14, 2011
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    No dice. Still completely dead. :(

    Any other options before I just transfer everything from the hard drive and scrap it?
     
    rpinson, Dec 18, 2011
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    Its likely your Motherboard has crapped, Sucks

    the other thing you can try is powering on with the hard drive, CD ROM, and wireless cards removed.

    If you can get hold of a different set of DIMMS and see if it will boot.
     
    dave-p, Dec 19, 2011
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    The last 2 times the MB died, I had the issue with the ac adapter light going out as soon as I plugged it into the computer. That doesn't happen now, though. It worked fine until it stopped charging and once it got down to 0%, it just hasn't powered back on. It's not like it just turned off one day while using it. It was completely power related. Darn...
     
    rpinson, Dec 20, 2011
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    I have seen this kind of problem with bad memory and dud CPU's, and bad GPu's

    So try another set of DIMMS.

    re-seating the CPU
     
    dave-p, Dec 20, 2011
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