When power button is turned on it has a orange light and the lamp button is red. It is not the bulb because it worked in another projector of the same kind.

COULD HAVE HOUR COUNT LAMP LOCKUP YOU WILL NEED TO RESET HOUR COUNTER BY USING BUTTON CONFIG AND MAINS.

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I'd recommend checking the fans of the projector, and make sure that they're spinning. Since you've mentioned that the lamp blew inside the unit, bits and pieces of the lamp might have lodged itself within the fans. It might also have to do w/ the after-market replacement bulb, which I normally wouldn't recommend.

It is the bulb 6 red flashing is a lamp problem. Replace it.

Other then POWER BUTTON light there are three lights more
1. lamp indicator
2. temperature indicator
3. computer input
witch one light is flashing RED or illuminated RED with POWER BUTTON orange light.
If LAMP INDICATOR light is illuminated RED than lamp runtime has reached 1800 hours. but projector still working.
If LAMP INDICATOR light flashing RED than lamp circuit failure, or abnormal function or lamp unit is damaged. In this case projector doing the same behave just like your projector.
if TEMPERATURE indicator illuminating RED the projector still projecting and if flashing RED than turned of itself

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If the Lamp light and power lights are blinking orange, the lamp driver has failed, and the projector will automatically shut down. Unplug the power cord from AC mains wall socket, wait for three minutes and replug and see whether it helos you. If not, contact Dell service center.
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If the unit will not power up it sounds like you may have tripped the lamp timer. You will need the remote plug the unit in and hold down the menu button on the remote for 10 seconds. The red light should go off and the unit should fire up.
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Power light is steady orange and lamp light is red but there is a new bulb in it. NEC VT676

The NEC’s work on a reducing time basis, they count the hours that they have been operational and refer to this as the life of the bulb – 1600 hours. When the 1600 hours has been reached the projector shuts itself down into standby mode never to be restarted even after changing the bulb / filters. This is because the unit needs to be reset, which needs to be done as follows (not included in any of the bulb replacement instructions):-

• Plug Projector in so it is in standby mode – Orange light lit, Red status light lit (not flashing)
• Using the remote control, hold down the power off button for 30-45 seconds
• This will reset the status button, removing the red light
• Power up the projector and select Menu
• Select Projector Options
• Select Set-up – a number of tabs will appear called pages
• Arrow across the pages (MT850 is Page 5) until an option called “RESET LAMP HOURS” is shown
• Move onto this option and press enter on the projector itself, confirm that you want to reset the counter
• Projector is now back to life

This works for all NEC projectors, the page number may be different though where the “RESET LAMP HOURS” option resides.

try pressing and holding the enter button on the projector for about 30 seconds - this resets it. It worked for me!!

Try pressing the HELP button. Don't release and press the power button. The LED lights should blink. Release then try to power on again.