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Hi, left to go to lunch.. came back..and my log in screen was frozen. I powered it down.. and now it wont reboot.. just a brief flash of the dell screen then nothing. please help. :(
It was not in a docking station or port replicator. I did remove all power sources. It did not help. I eventually did unplug the power source and remove the battery. I held down the power button for 30 seconds then plugged it in. It came on then shut down. I put the battery back in and tried it again with no power supply. Held down power button and it came on. I did find out last night, that it was my processor. Luckily, I had a spare laptop laying around just like the one that died. Put my hard drive in the other laptop and viola!!! I'm in business. I will say, though.. for some reason, when i would plug in my power source, my laptop would immediately shut down on the old machine. But, as of this am, my problem has been fixed! Yayy!! :) It was not in a docking station or port replicator. I did remove all power sources. It did not help. I eventually did unplug the power source and remove the battery. I held down the power button for 30 seconds then plugged it in. It came on then shut down. I put the battery back in and tried it again with no power supply. Held down power button and it came on. I did find out last night, that it was my processor. Luckily, I had a spare laptop laying around just like the one that died. Put my hard drive in the other laptop and viola!!! I'm in business. I will say, though.. for some reason, when i would plug in my power source, my laptop would immediately shut down on the old machine. But, as of this am, my problem has been fixed! Yayy!! :)
Was it in a docking station or port replicator? If you remove all power sources, does that help?Was it in a docking station or port replicator? If you remove all power sources, does that help?
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First try pressing down the power button for up to 10 seconds or until the laptop powers down. Wait a couple of minutes and see if the computer reboots properly. If it does, fine, if not power the laptop down again and again wait a couple of minutes, power on and press F8 whilst it is booting to get a menu up which should say on one of the entries something like "revert to last known good settings" Highlight this option using the keyboard arrow keys (mouse won't usually work here) and pressing return.
This should set your computer back to before the update that is causing the problem.
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If it is really frozen on that screen, unplug the power cable and take out the battery to shut it down. Once shut down put the battery back, plug the power cable back in, and reboot. If it freezes again you got a serious hardware or software problem.
Take the Battery out.
Place it back in.
Press and hold the Vol down : Home : Power buttons simultaneously for 10 sec.
Using the volume buttons navigate to the reset to factory settings option.
press select (left of home on L55C).
Confirm to reset.
Select to reboot.
You should be good.
It is the boot rom menu for the device. Just power it off then back on. IF it comes back then your OS on your phone is toast.It means your phone is in recovery mode. Hold down the volume up and power button at the same time, then select the option to reboot by going up or down with the volume keys and pressing the power button to confirm your selection.
I'm pretty sure that you are having a boot failure, not all to figure out is whether the HDD is bad or just the operating system having a problem.
Hold the Fn Key and press the power button to start diagnostics on the system and see if you get a hard drive failure message. If you do replace it. If diags pass, then try booting to the Windows XP CD, and run CHKDSK /R at the recovery console (Press R at 1st prompt to enter RC)
Try connecting it to an external monitor.
When you do, as soon as you press the power button to turn on the laptop, close the laptop lid - as this forces the laptop to display on an external monitor.
If this works, then it means the laptop screen is bad.
If it doesn't, the most likely cause would be that the laptop video card went bad.
For a while, some older Dell laptops with high-end nVidia graphics cards tended to die suddenly.
try to log in safe mode when the laptop is booting by pressing F8 key, you will see many option select boot in safe mode, if you can boot in safe mode then reboot normally. if the problem remains then you have to repair or reinstall your operating system.
It was not in a docking station or port replicator. I did remove all power sources. It did not help. I eventually did unplug the power source and remove the battery. I held down the power button for 30 seconds then plugged it in. It came on then shut down. I put the battery back in and tried it again with no power supply. Held down power button and it came on. I did find out last night, that it was my processor. Luckily, I had a spare laptop laying around just like the one that died. Put my hard drive in the other laptop and viola!!! I'm in business. I will say, though.. for some reason, when i would plug in my power source, my laptop would immediately shut down on the old machine. But, as of this am, my problem has been fixed! Yayy!! :)
Was it in a docking station or port replicator? If you remove all power sources, does that help?
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