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September 6th, 2015 13:00
Latitude D610 will not power up
I just recently purchased a Latitude D610 from a local shop. It was without a hard drive and a power supply, but I found vendors on the net that could supply me with those components. Once I had everything I needed, I powered it up. It tried to boot from the hard drive, but there was no OS on it, so it went nowhere. I restarted and went into the BIOS to change the boot sequence. Well, turns out that the BIOS functions were password protected....this was a holdover from the previous user(s). I certainly didn't have a password, so I started scrounging for a solution. I found that if I crossed pin 2 and 3 on the EEPROM chip, that was supposed to reset the BIOS to factory settings. Well, I attempted that once, but when I went into the BIOS, it was still the same. Thinking I did not do it correctly, I again went to cross the two pins. I may have inadvertently touched another pair...like pins 1 and 2 or 3 and 4...because when I went to restart again, I got nothing. The laptop does not power on....no LED's blink....nothing. Did I fry it beyond recovery and is now only suitable as a doorstop, or is there something I can do to revive it? Thanks in advance for your help.


ejn63
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September 6th, 2015 14:00
It depends on your willingness to spend about $50 to solve both problems.
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That's what you'll need to replace.
tmulligan331
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September 6th, 2015 16:00
Thank you for your reply. Seeing that I only spent $10 on the laptop - minus the hard drive - in the first place...I can just go back and get another one and start over....again. That is, of course, if he's not sold out of them, in which case I'll be utilizing the link that you provided. Thanks again!!!