I have a dell ins iron 1521 and yesterday it started running lines accords the whole screen and making some sort of noise. At the time my son was playing farmville on it. We had to shut it down, not we cannot turn the commuter back on. After pressing the power on it blinks for about 15-20 seconds and then turns off. What should I do? Thanks stoney

try taking the battery out, pull out the power cord, and push and hold down the power button for 10-15 seconds. Then put everything back and try to start normally. If the problem still continues, try turning it off and pulling the memory out of the laptop and then reseat it...sometimes this may cause the problem but without any sorts of beeping or display occurring, it's very hard to help you on this one. I'm wishing you the best though. :-)

It could. First thing you should do though is clean the fans out with some compressed air.

Make sure the laptop is off and you're outside. I usually use two cans at once for best results. If you still get weird noises especially screeching then the bearings are going out and you can either grease up the old fan (band-aid fix) or swap it out with a new one.

Hope this info helps and best of luck!

Hi,
Try running the diagnostics on the computer. You may need to repeat some of the steps that you have already done to initiate the same.

1. Remove the battery and the Ac adapter from the system
2. Press the power button for 10 seconds
3. Reinsert the battery and connect the Ac adapter
4. While holding down the FN key on the keyboard press the power button.

If the system beeps in a series on 3-3-3 or 3-3-4 the system is ok and there could be a problem with the screen.

If the system beeps in some other code . revert to the post and we would let you know where the problem is .
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Sounds like the system is not POSTing here are the basic steps:

http://www.fixya.com/support/r3581893-how_to_troublehoot_a_portable_compouter_

Your LCD has either gone bad or the ribbon needs to be reseated.

Carefully pry the plastic cover that runs parallel with your LCD. You will see the ribbon to the monitor. Press the connector down and make sure it didn't come loose.

Restart Windows.

If that doesn't work, then you will need to replace the LCD screen. You will not have to replace your lid...just the LCD. That should save you some money.

Hope this helps.

Replacement keys for Dell 1521 can be found here.

Yes, most likely the inverter has failed if you can still make out the desktop but the screen is very dim. Below is the link to the service and repair manual for that model.

http://support.ap.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1521/en/sm/index.htm

I recommend you check your air vents for dust buildup. Use an old toothbrush to clean the dust off the outside of the vents and then use one of those cans of compressed air meant for cleaning keyboards to blow air through the vents to dislodge any dust accumulated inside. Some laptops have more than one vent. Make sure to clean all of them. I once worked on a Sony laptop that I had to take apart to clean out all of the vents.

It seems your new HDD is not formatted properly there are few bad sectors so u need to format once more. Thats a page file error once your OS detected you new HDD it started using root of that HDD for pagefile.sys and that fall on bad sector which generated delayed write and in turn you got dun dun dun.

Two possibilities: The display is a power hog. It's possible that the battery is failing, and has enough power to run the PC, but not the PC AND display at the same time. You would need to replace the battery, in this case. Or, in Control Panel, in Performance and Maintenance, in Power Options, there should be settings somewhere for the display when on battery or AC power. Make sure that the one for Battery doesn';t turn the display off after 0 minutes.