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September 28th, 2005 08:00
inspiron problem -- urgent -- please help
Hi , i'm beginning to wonder that this isn't a motherboard issue .. it's with my Inspiron 1150, which is OUT of warranty. :~(
Months ago, just as the PC was out of warranty, I moved and somehow my AC adapter cord was damaged. I didn't want to pay the $80 or so for a new adapter .. so instead, I slapped a piece of electrical tape around it and prayed. It did have a negative effect on the PC as I would have to position the cord in a correct manner as sometimes when inserting it, the PC would not recognize the Adapter.
Anyway, after a few months of this, the PC finally cut out one day and would not power back on. I removed the battery and tried it again to no luck. I WAS able to get it to go back on for short bursts, but it would variably stay on for short amounts of time and cut to a blue screen with different errors, about IRQ's and memory faults .. The one that advises a customer to remove all new hardware, disable BIOS shadowing, and the rest.
The problem is that the laptop rarely even gets to the BIOS screen. Sometimes, it will. If it does, it will 99% of the time, take a longer time to load the BIOS and then come back with an INVALID CONFIGURATION error -- sometimes, when I try to look at the Setup with F2, the computer freezes all over again.
I DID finally get a new AC adapter and this did not solve the problem. I am at a loss at what to try next. It seems as though there would have been some sort of power problem that fried the motherboard? Or something. Please give any advice possible.
Months ago, just as the PC was out of warranty, I moved and somehow my AC adapter cord was damaged. I didn't want to pay the $80 or so for a new adapter .. so instead, I slapped a piece of electrical tape around it and prayed. It did have a negative effect on the PC as I would have to position the cord in a correct manner as sometimes when inserting it, the PC would not recognize the Adapter.
Anyway, after a few months of this, the PC finally cut out one day and would not power back on. I removed the battery and tried it again to no luck. I WAS able to get it to go back on for short bursts, but it would variably stay on for short amounts of time and cut to a blue screen with different errors, about IRQ's and memory faults .. The one that advises a customer to remove all new hardware, disable BIOS shadowing, and the rest.
The problem is that the laptop rarely even gets to the BIOS screen. Sometimes, it will. If it does, it will 99% of the time, take a longer time to load the BIOS and then come back with an INVALID CONFIGURATION error -- sometimes, when I try to look at the Setup with F2, the computer freezes all over again.
I DID finally get a new AC adapter and this did not solve the problem. I am at a loss at what to try next. It seems as though there would have been some sort of power problem that fried the motherboard? Or something. Please give any advice possible.
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ejn63
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September 28th, 2005 10:00
If those check out, and you need a mainboard, sell the system for parts and replace it - it's simply not worth putting $500-700 into a notebook like the 1150 to repair it.
andreaUT
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September 29th, 2005 18:00
tmieczkowski
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September 30th, 2005 03:00