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Question

Dead Dell Laptop

Sep 22, 2011 9:23AM PDT

Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop. Turn it on and 3 green lights come on for about 3 seconds and then go out. With or without battery, with or without ram, without dvd rom, 2 new motherboards, and the new fan never turns. What else could it be?

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Think over.
Sep 22, 2011 1:35PM PDT

Think over what parts were not changed.

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Thanks
Sep 22, 2011 10:39PM PDT

I listed what I had thought over. A checklist of the things you are thinking of would have been helpful.

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(NT) An obvious one is the power supply.
Sep 22, 2011 10:45PM PDT
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My list.
Sep 23, 2011 6:01AM PDT

I always try the generic reset and we know that old and bad batteries fry motherboards or cause issues so we never let a bad battery stay long in the office. The cost of a bad battery could cause a fiscal crisis.

There are only a few parts to a laptop such as power, display, mainboard to get a display up. What I'm encountering are folk that are unaware how few and expensive these parts are.

So, in short, generic reset, no battery and always measure those CMOS batteries.
Bob