Think over what parts were not changed.
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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