Dell Latitude E6410 won't start.

[Potato1215]

Cause : I accidentally pushed the Latitude ON(1) button, but my Dell Latitude E6410(2) doesn't have the card.

Problem : Every time i push the power button now, the led on the power button flashes once but the computer gives no sign of booting. Screen remains black, fans stay off, no beeping sounds.
Also, after pushing the power button the 1st time, all the consecutive times the led remains off, which means absolutely no reaction from pushing the power button. I have to take out the power adapter from the wall and plug it back in, and then push the power button again to see the led lighting.

Tried : Removing battery and adapter, holding power button for 15 seconds, plugging back the adapter and pushing power button. No effects.

Removed the battery from the BIOS, plugged it back in. No effects.

A weird thing happens: if i unplug the power adapter and simply plug it to the wall the green led on it lights up, as soon as i plug it on the laptop the led turns off.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude_ON
2. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e6410/pd

I'll appreciate all the help i can get.

 

[Kraszmyl]

Has nothing to do with LatON. Pressing that button without a card or the hard drive partition just gives you a screen saying its not there.

While the machine is completely powered off. Hold down the FN key in the lower left hand corner and press power. This will force the laptop to enter a diagnostic mode that will generally tell you exactly what is wrong.

If something is preventing the diagnostic mode such as bad memory or a motherboard pay attention to the caps lock, number lock, and scroll lock lights. note which ones are flashing, which ones are off, and which ones are solid. These can tell us if you have bad memory, bad bios, ect.

 

[Potato1215]

Has nothing to do with LatON. Pressing that button without a card or the hard drive partition just gives you a screen saying its not there.

While the machine is completely powered off. Hold down the FN key in the lower left hand corner and press power. This will force the laptop to enter a diagnostic mode that will generally tell you exactly what is wrong.

If something is preventing the diagnostic mode such as bad memory or a motherboard pay attention to the caps lock, number lock, and scroll lock lights. note which ones are flashing, which ones are off, and which ones are solid. These can tell us if you have bad memory, bad bios, ect.

Thanks for the reply,

Held down "fn" key + power and nothing happened, no buttons light up, laptop makes no sound at all, only the led of the power button lights up and imediatly turns off.

 

[Kraszmyl]

Okay. Pull the drive, ram, battery. Repeat the fn+power thing while on ac adapter. If you still get no reaction chances are the mobo is dead. I dont recall if those have a separate board for the power button but that could be it too if that exists.

Edit - if you need parts go to support.dell.com and see what a new warranty costs. Its generally 100 to 200 depending on selected opinions. But only do this if you know who it was originally registered to.