Dell D630 no boot

[Ubrales]

When the start button is depressed, the laptop power ON light comes on and the HDD light stays ON for about 2 seconds; the DVD comes briefly ON, and then nothing. No Dell splash screen, no boot!

This laptop's motherboard was replaced by Dell under warranty (Nvidia chip issue). A week ago the laptop worked fine; this week no boot, no splash screen.

I tried the following:

1) Unplugged the AC adapter, took the battery out, and depressed the ON button for 60 seconds. Then connected the AC adapter and tried to turn the laptop ON. No boot, no splash screen.

2) Took out the RAM module and re-seated the RAM. Tried to boot. No splash screen.

3) Took out the HDD and checked it on another computer. No errors.

4) Tried with three different AC adapters. All adapters show ok and output 19.4 V

Can anyone suggest a course of action? Your thoughts and ideas are welcome!

 

[RussK1]

Nice kit_fox!

Good luck Ubrales!

 

[Ubrales]

Thanks Russ!

 

[kit_fox]

no about 10-15 minutes would be fine to listen for the beeping. If that is a nogo you may either look through support.dell.com and find the service manual which should have a section on how to reseat/replace the LCD cable to the motherboard. I would try that if you dont get any beeps after about 15 minutes, then try to reseat all the system ram. if it still doesnt work then at that point I would try to get dell to replace the motherboard and possibly the LCD cable.

 

[Ubrales]

Thank you kit_fox!

I will definitely try these things (I already re-seated the RAM located under the keyboard).