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I have a Dell Inspiron 6000, almost three years old. I press the power button on the computer (and have tried holding it down for ten seconds or more as well), and all of the lights blink green once, then the "A" light blinks nine times, then nothing. Nothing else happens, no whirring sounds, nothing. I replaced the battery with a new battery, and it worked once, but the next time I tried to turn it on it did the exact same thing as before. Any ideas what it might be and/or what to do? Thanks!
I have a dell inspiron 6000, three y old. I knew the battery was on its way out, only holds a 20 minute charge, but now the power light blinks, 4x amber and 1 green repeatedly, regardless if the laptop is plugged in with the computer off or on. What does this mean?
I have a dell inspiron 6000, three y old. I knew the battery was on its way out, only holds a 20 minute charge, but now the power light blinks, 4x amber and 1 green repeatedly, regardless if the laptop is plugged in with the computer off or on. What does this mean?
I press down the power button lights go on for a few seconds and it shuts down, no whirring.Have tried holding button down for ten seconds...it just shuts down I press down the power button lights go on for a few seconds and it shuts down, no whirring.Have tried holding button down for ten seconds...it just shuts down
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If it's blinking 9 times then it's likely telling you one or more of the RAM sticks are in need of replacement.
To check these, remove the laptops power cord and battery, then locate and remove, the cover for the RAM.
Remove one chip at a time and try booting the laptop.
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Is the computer plugged in to a known good power source with a known good power cord? Also, make sure the power is fully seated on both ends. When you press the power button are you getting any indicator lights? The power button itself has an LED that will be either solid green, blinking green, solid amber, blinking amber, or off. Do you hear any beeps?
Remove the battery and replace it, test. If this does not work, attempt to power on with the AC adapter plugged in and no battery in the system. If this works, you have a bad battery. If this does not work, watch the light on the ac adapter. If the green light goes out when you press the power button, something more is wrong with the system. Further information is desired. When you press the power button, do any lights on the system light up? Do the fans in the computer turn on? Does it make ANY noise? Finally, if available, it is desirable to try a different and known functional AC adapter.
During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS you can load failsafe defaultsor load optimized defaults ,press escape then press f10 to save to cmos to restart or During the boot process tap thef8 button three times this will boot into safe mode where the only things working will be your mouse and keyboard enabling you to attempt to repair your computer
another reason a bad lead
One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive
Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA
the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electic extensions or just replace them they are probably faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error
The input jack that is soldered to the motherboard (where the AC jack plugs in) probably has a cold solder joint. Thus the laptop switches from battery to AC power. You can try to have the solder joints re-soldered.
Probably the easiest way to repair/replace the boot sector is using an XP install Disk. You need to insert the disk, restart the computer, and begin pressing the F12 Key during Bootup. You should be given a Boot Menu. Select your CD/DVD drive as the drive to boot from. Let windows XP do its setup and you will halt at a screen that gives you a chance to Press R for repair. Press R. You will be in DOS mode with a cursor blinking. Type FIXBOOT and press the enter key. Follow the propmpts.
If this does not fix your boot sector, go through the same whole process again but at the cursor type in FIXMBR and hit the entr key. This is to repair the Master Boot Record.
If neither of these tools get you booted back into Windows, then you could have any one of a number of other issues, It would be difficult to address them all in this forum.
I don't wish to be a doomsayer, but an Inspiron 6000 could easily be 5 years old, the same as the expected normal life of a hard drive.
Have you tried this: 1. After removing the battery 2. Press and hold the power button for at least 10 sec. 3. Put back the battery 4. Turn it on
if this doesnt work, there could be a problem with your operating system. Try accessing safe mode if you can login .TAP F8 continously on the dell logo screen, and it will open advance boot options. (Just select safe mode) If safe mode boots properly try running system restore to restore it back to the previous date where your computer is still booting to windows. Hope this helps
Try this: remove your battery, unplug power, press and hold power button for at least 20 seconds, plug power cord back in but not the battery, press power and see if you get normal boot. If this is the case, your battery probably needs replaced.
it could be that the ports where you plug in the charger is damaged. if you have an identical or a known good battery that is charged, try to install that and check if it works. you need a motherboard replacement if the system works with a charged battery.
On ac power when you hit the power button, if there are no lights, it could be the power supply. If there are lights, try starting it without the battery, ac only. If there are lights and it still doesn't start after removing the battery, try a different memory chip. On Dell machines the battery can acquire a dead short causing it to not start. Also if the memory chip/chips have gone out it will cause it not to start. If it still will not start after these three it's a motherboard problem and will most likely have to be replaced.
You can also pick up the batteries less expensive than most computer places at batteries plus. And yes it sounds as though it is the batteries charge is getting low, especially if it runs fine when the battery is out and you have it plugged in.
I have a dell inspiron 6000, three y old. I knew the battery was on its way out, only holds a 20 minute charge, but now the power light blinks, 4x amber and 1 green repeatedly, regardless if the laptop is plugged in with the computer off or on. What does this mean?
I press down the power button lights go on for a few seconds and it shuts down, no whirring.Have tried holding button down for ten seconds...it just shuts down
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