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Question

Dell XPS M1530 Won't Start

Aug 20, 2017 10:38AM PDT

Recently i upgraded to w10 on my Dell XPS M1530 and my computer was running fine on it so i was playing gmod on it and i had forgotten to put the battery into it. After that, the charger was unplugged so after restarting it came up with the troubleshoot screen so i did a reset that would delete everything exept my personal files but that got stuck on 8% and wouldn't go any further. So i had to restrore the system to the last working point so i left it to do that for about 4 hours and it told me to restart and my computer doesnt restart correctly so i let it restart and turned it on myself and it came up with the troubleshoot screen. I tried starting in safe mode and it made me restart the computer and after i turned it on it just came up with a purple loading screen that just turned to black eventually. Now it just comes up with a black screen and i cant get past that point. I can do On+D but that doesn't do anything but flash colours

(btw i have tried hard reset but it didn't do anything)

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Clarification Request
I fear there is more to this story.
Aug 20, 2017 11:05AM PDT
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You have open discussions on this one. Read at links.
Aug 20, 2017 11:13AM PDT
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Well..
Aug 20, 2017 11:43AM PDT

It had a corrupt hard drive so i replaced it with one from a w10 Inspiron 6400

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That rarely works.
Aug 20, 2017 11:52AM PDT

While that may get me a working drive I don't expect it to boot. Get the BIOS, maybe but you are leaving out details, posting in more than one thread and when you start a new thread, not sharing all.

If this was mine, but it isn't and I don't know the history, I may have to pull the HDD and try booting off some Linux CD/DVD/USB to see if the machine is any good at all.

There is again a lack of detail. Such as the age of the machine, if you measured the CMOS battery and so on. That's a basic PC tech check item so let's hear more story but I fear this machine has had a hard life and may be game over.

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No
Aug 20, 2017 11:44AM PDT

No the dell logo doesn't show