Broken Dell Inspiron 1525

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by wardy484, Apr 1, 2010.

  1. wardy484

    wardy484 Private E-2

    My sister has a Dell inspiron 1525, which has stopped working. When you turn it on the lights power on and you can hear the fan spinning and hard drive starting up, but it nothing comes on screen and the computer just restarts. She says she dropped something on it but I'm not sure what anyway, she got a new laptop but if I can fix this one its mine. So does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

    Oh yeah I've had it apart and nothing appears damaged in anyway.
    Thanks for reading, hope you can help.
     
    wardy484, Apr 1, 2010
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Where about in the boot order does the PC get to be fore it restarts or is it that as you mention nothing shows on the screen?

    If possible try and get into Safe Mode (tap F8 at boot until the safe mode menu lists)

    Try and see if you can enter the BIOS, the key/s to press should flash up quickly when you boot the PC (likely to be F2, DEL or Fn+F1 keys), but if nothing shows on screen you may not be able to do this.


    To test if the hardware is possibly all ok and its just Windows thats broken, try a Linux liveCD and Ubuntu is good, just need to burn the downloaded ISO to a CD and use this free app ImgBurn to do this, once the ISO has burned to CD pop it in the drive and boot the PC, if luckily the BIOS is set to boot from CDROM first then it may boot to the linux cd, if not and you cannot access the BIOS due to nothing onscreen then its going to be difficult.
     
    DavidGP, Apr 1, 2010
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  3. wardy484

    wardy484 Private E-2

    Just tried loading the bios and nothing happens, also it doesn't constantly restart. It seems to turn on the straight off again, then if i turn it on again it stays on but nothing appears on screen.
     
    wardy484, Apr 1, 2010
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  4. risk_reversal

    risk_reversal MajorGeek

    risk_reversal, Apr 1, 2010
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  5. wardy484

    wardy484 Private E-2

    ummm none of them light up
     
    wardy484, Apr 1, 2010
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