Just bought barebones e1705 laptop that doesn't work

Question

I just bought a e1705 barebones with no drives or ram and no video card installed.  I turn it on and as shown in the pictures the two lights blink on and off and then it will stop blinking after awhile.  I have worked on a few laptops but none with video cards and this one doesn't start up so you can hear the fan.  Do you need the video card to be plugged into the laptop for it to power on or is this guy just trying to rip me off?  Please help ASAP I need to figure out if I should put a paypal complaint in right now!! http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6587/e1705010dx1.jpg http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6731/e1705011lx3.jpg http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1831/e1705012xy6.jpg

ejn63 · Answer

If you don't hear a set of beeps when you try to boot it with no video card and no RAM, the system board is faulty.

C3PO5 · Answer

Hi

You have to get a video card and ram or it will not come on

and you need a hard drive to get it to boot to windows !!

You got what you paid for no ram no video card and no hard drive i would

have never bought it from ebay to start with that may be why it was sold

without the ram and video card it may be a dead { {motherboard}}

but you will not know until you try it with ram and a video card !!

Good Luck

Message Edited by C3PO5 on 11-22-2007 07:33 AM

chips2481 · Answer

I put the ram and video card in it and it did start up with one problem, the fan doesn't work at all.  I did a system check and it came out good on everything but the hard drive since I don't have a sata notebook drive.  The fan should come on even if it is in bios right?

chips2481 · Answer

I have a few other threads that I posted, probably too many but I was too tired at 5am to think properly:smileytongue:.  I was going to flash the bios to see if that would fix the problem with the fans.  I was going to buy a power converter to run the fans to make sure it won't overheat and shut down the computer during the flash.  I have never done a flash before on a laptop, anyone know if it would overheat and shut down before it is done with the flash or is it quick enough to stay cool enough, also does a flash make the cpu run real hard making it get hot faster?  I had done a dell diagnostics without the fans running and it ran for over 10 minutes without it shutting down.  The video card had to be over 90c when I shut it down though, the processor was a little cooler than the video card.     http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&message.id=263543#M263543   http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&message.id=263519#M263519

GreyMack · Answer

The fan(s) on a notebook are usually turned on when needed rather than running all the time. Temperature monitoring and fan control is handled by code in the BIOS, but there is usually no user access.

GM

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