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When I press the power button...

the caps lock blinks, the power and hard drive indicator come on, the hard drive spins up...then it turns off.
Never posts, no fan comes on, no bios screen appears.
What can i do?
(the keyboard is missing 15 keys lol)

malrofo
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This is a laptop or desktop?
And what model/make is it?

thepastimer
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could be overheating...try cleaning your processor fan.. or answer questions above... so you can get clearer answer... LOL...

cguan_77
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It's a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop

malrofo
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i fugured it out, the ram slots were too dirty to read the ram and i was getting ram errors

malrofo
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