Dell Inspiron 8600 Not Powering Up

can you attach it to an external monitor or tv to see if it is outputting anything?

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When your shut down your computer and plug your the charger in your laptop that time Orange lite is showing on. if no showing then its problem to your laptop

Ya seems like a hardware issue.. So tyr to run a hardware diagnostics on the laptop and see if it a hardware failure

http://findtechhelp12.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-run-dell-diagnostics.html

I would check network connections in your control panel first and make sure your wireless connection is enabled. Next I would go to System in control panel and then go to device manager and check to see if the drive for the wireless is installed. May want to try here for the Driver download.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=08&l=en&s=bsdr&ServiceTag=29PS3G1&SystemID=Latitude%20D630&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

You can download a bootable CD image from this site, http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/, what you will do once you create the CD is put it in the CD drive and boot your computer, assuming that your BIOS is set to boot from CD if not you will need to do this. Then just follow the prompts on the screen to reset or remove the Administrator password. This is one tool that I keep in my toolbox otherwise the only option is to reinstall Windows. The web site has good instructions on the application, I have been using it for years, great tool.

Some Dell inspiron 8600 doesnt have a built in wireless card only bluetooth. But if you have one, just press Fn+F2 and it will enable your wireless connection. Hope this helps.

Remove your device from the device manager and reboot unit.
Restart and reload device drivers.
Make sure the driver are for xp pro

Download the Alps Touchpad driver for the Inspiron 8600 from the FTP site of Dell (http://ftp.us.dell.com/input/R113813.EXE)

Let me know if this helped!

download latest audio drivers from www.support.dell.com
uninstall audio drivers from device manager
restart your system
then install latest downloaded drivers.

Here is a link to microsoft they have a step by step process to try and troubleshoot your problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918730