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.
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Jump to PostThis 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.
Jump to PostNo, 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.
Jump to PostNo, 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 …
Jump to Posthey 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
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