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Dell Inspiron 9200 Will Not Start
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I have a three year old Inspiron 9200. Has been perfect until now. Installed Vista Ultimate 5 months ago. No problems. Last night my 11 year old son was using it and running Action Replay for Nintendo DS. Not sure what happened when he was done. The system was off when when I went to start it. The indicator lights came on but no sound from anything. After 5 seconds the system powered down. Could this be a bad CMOS battery or not. I pulled the battery today and voltage checked it. It showed 3.25V. It is rated at 3.6V. Any help will be most appreciated.
This would not be caused by a bad CMOS battery. If the battery died all you would lose is your date and time and memory settings. System would still boot with default BIOS settings. Did you get a Dell spash screen on boot? If not I suspect a dead motherboard.
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Originally Posted by fkulikoff 
No, I get no splash screen. Nothing except the indicator lights above the keyboard.
If you get no splash or anything it's more then likely the system board is toast.
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Always check the simple fix first.
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Originally Posted by fkulikoff
No, I get no splash screen. Nothing except the indicator lights above the keyboard.
What sequence are the indicator lights flashing in? Usually they will flash in a certain sequence to display a code. If you can provide me with the sequence they are flashing in we can find out what is causing the system to not boot.
Brad
Dell Customer Advocate
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Originally Posted by DellOutreach
What sequence are the indicator lights flashing in? Usually they will flash in a certain sequence to display a code. If you can provide me with the sequence they are flashing in we can find out what is causing the system to not boot.
Brad
Dell Customer Advocate
I am having a similar problem, the caps lock indicator light flashs when I try to power up my Inspiron 9200. I can not find anything in the documentation to tell me what the means - can you help?
Thank you in advance.
Mark
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Originally Posted by mslocock
Dear Brad,
I am having a similar problem, the caps lock indicator light flashs when I try to power up my Inspiron 9200. I can not find anything in the documentation to tell me what the means - can you help?
Thank you in advance.
Mark
Sorry that I haven't got an answer, but I have exactly the same problem with my C840 Latitude.
I up graded the memory to 1Gb (2 x 512 crucial memory) the other day.
When I power up I get the power light and HDD light come on and the Caps Lock light flashes. This lasts for about 5 or so seconds, then it powers off. I tried putting the old single stick of memory back in but I get the same problem.
I'm under the cosh as well, because my wife is using it for her college work and is hassling me all the time.
This is my old work laptop and I remember the Dell engineer coming out to fix it a few years ago when it needed a new mainboard. There was some sort of diagnostic code to the lights then, but I can't remember what he said.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Stu.
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Originally Posted by DellOutreach
What sequence are the indicator lights flashing in? Usually they will flash in a certain sequence to display a code. If you can provide me with the sequence they are flashing in we can find out what is causing the system to not boot.
Brad
Dell Customer Advocate
I have a similar problem with my C840 Latitude.
I up graded the memory to 1Gb (2 x 512 crucial memory) the other day.
When I power up I get the power light and HDD light come on and the Caps Lock light flashes. This lasts for about 5 or so seconds, then it powers off. I tried putting the old single stick of memory back in but I get the same problem.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Stu.
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hey guys
it is always a very wise idea to first check if the new hardware is suitable for your system(motherboard).
check the above mentioned
it is always a very wise idea to first check if the new hardware is suitable for your system(motherboard).
check the above mentioned
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