20 Most Recent Dell Precision M60 Notebook - Page 6 Questions & Answers

Why? Buy a new power supply.

Do you know what socket your motherboard has? What is your Express Service Code on the back of your machine?

First, check you hard drive as follows: *Download Seatools For DOS (free) from my link; in the site screen, click "DOWNLOADS" tab, then "Seatools For DOS". Burn it to a CD. Reboot with it in your drive. In the screen that appears, first check that SMART has (or has not) been tripped. If it has been tripped, your drive is failing. Then click the upper left corner of the screen for the short test and let it run. It will notify you either Pass or Fail. This is from Seagate Corp. but will test all other drives, not just Seagate. If your drive passes as good, the chances are that your motherboard is failing/failed. Try swapping your cables as you stated, but I don't think that will help. If you have an extra hard drive you can swap it to test, but if it is empty you will need some kind of operating system installation disk to see if you can load an OS on it. If so, then the hard drive is bad. For more detailed and in-depth help, I hang out at www.suggest-a-fix.com computer help forum (free). Post in.

There should be a hole next to the button on the CD drive that you can use a paper clip to open the drawer.Also go into setup and make sure CD drive is first boot device.

You need to access the motherboard's BIOS. This is usually done by pressing either Del or F2 on your keyboard when you hear the beep sound as it boots up. Be careful though because the wrong settings could cause your computer to malfunction. Or you could also google search for a solution. There might be a software that allows you to do that.

An amber light means your computer isn't reading the hard drive or CD right, Take it to a professional to get this corrected

Usually means a motherboard problem, but try removing the RAM for 5 seconds then put it back. restart your pc. If it doesnt work you might need to change the motherboard.

Click start control panel administrative tools computer management then select event viewer this may vary depending on what operating system you have extend the events there you will see errors in red you will no what exactly what the error was and at what time it occured Right click on the error message select properties you will see all details about the error or click start type in event viewer press ENTER this should give you some sort of understanding of the error and you might be able work your way through the problem if you need more help with this post a reply with the error message details

You remove the failed one and fit a new one.

Please refer to this link to explain the diagnostic lights on your pc.http://support.dell.com/support/systemsinfo/document.aspx?s=biz&~file=/systems/ws380/en/ug/a04/diaglght.htm#wp1055897

Test your PSU or replace it if your power supply units fan is not working your PSU is faulty Test all power and data leads that attach to your hard drive IDE,SATA

the leads from your MOTHERBOARD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE make sure they have a secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs its connections to continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error even something as small as a faulty electrical extension or fan lead can cause you problems

computers need power and data travel through every working device and to have an end to be able work properly

make sure ram modules and cmos batteries have dust free secure seatings and cmos battery has charge some motherboards cmos batteries are soldered in

motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive if its a flat ribbon 40 pin type IDE replace it this will be the first to fail

check all power and data leads make sure they have secure dust free connections

cd/dvd floppy drives need to have current go through make sure these drives are working

check you CPU make sure its securely seated and has thermal grease hope this helps