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sothenshebrokef

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January 3rd, 2014 09:00

Dell Studio 1558 will not boot

Hello!

I have a Dell Studio 1558 that was working perfectly last night. This morning, however, it will not boot. I have tried booting with both the battery and AC adapter, just the battery, and just the AC adapter. I took the battery and adapter out and held down the power button for 45 seconds. I have also tried a (different) known good AC adapter (by itself and with the battery). I've also tried an outlet in a different room.

The weird thing is that every time I plug the laptop in, the LED turns on for about a second, then turns right off. I have tried hitting the power button for that split second that the LED is lit to see if it would make that initial boot sound (even if it doesn't fully boot up), but it doesn't. The battery has 5 LED indicators, but none are lit. I can't find a button on the battery to diagnose the battery life (some DELL forums were saying to hit a button on the battery).

Also, hitting Fn while attempting to boot does nothing - I saw that some DELL laptops had a built-in diagnostic. Not sure if that applies to mine or not.

I wouldn't mind taking my hdd out and booting without it (or testing the hdd itself), but laptops are kind of a pain to take apart and I'm thinking that it's not the drive. I'm hoping there are other things I can try first..

Please advise with further troubleshooting steps or any suggestions.

Thank you!

Yarnell Wash

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May 7th, 2014 23:00

I had almost the same issue. Dell told me to unplug the power cord and remove the battery and then push the power button and hold it about 10 seconds. Then put the battery back in and the power cord and start the computer and as soon it powers up hold down the F12, or keep tapping F12. This worked for me, but sorry to say the computer keep on acting up, but the computer did boot up. Every time the computer would freeze up or just shut off I would power the computer back up and use the F12. Did all kinds of scans soft and hardware but nothing showed up. Decided to put in a new hard drive at a cost of $100. The new hard drive worked fine for a few weeks, but the computer started doing the same thing. Again, did all kinds of scans, but nothing showed up negative. Today for some reason decided to put in the old hard drive because I was going reformat it and start over. Would you believe my computer is working back to normal with the old hard drive. I can't believe it. Hope down the road the computer keeps working like it should. Maybe the F12 will help for you.

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