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    Problem with 700m

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by anna123, Feb 23, 2009.

  1. anna123

    anna123 Notebook Guru

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    When my 700m is plugged in, it does not power on. However, there is enought power to open the cd drive and search for something--no lcd whatsoever, and if the battery is in, the only thing that light up is the battery light. Will I need an entire motherboard, or could the cpu be faulty. Thanks in advance.
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    AFAIK, if your CD drive is working and trying to read disks, the machine is powered on. Can it try to read disks while on battery power? Can you hear the HDD spinning up? Have you tried plugging this into an external monitor?
     
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    anna123 Notebook Guru

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    Thanks for the quick reply. The hard drive is not spinning and I have tried connecting to an external monitor. I have swapped out memory. Am very puzzled.
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    That is very strange indeed. Without any further information, I'd say you'd probably have to change that motherboard. If you have another compatible processor on hand, it wouldn't hurt to test it, but the processors themselves fail very, very rarely; it's usually some other component that dies first.
     
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