A laptop. Can't work out what to do with it.

JonJ678

JonJ678

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Model is the Dell inspiron 1300.

No display on main screen or an attached monitor. Lights come on, fan spins. Pushing keys doesn't do anything.

I've just stripped it down on a hunch that the bios needs to be reset. I swear there isn't a battery anywhere on the damned board, either side. I think I've concluded that the board/gpu has died. Is there any alternative explanation I'm missing?

At a bit of a loss.

edit: misleading title, I'm fairly sure I'm scrapping it. Just really hoping I don't have to.
 
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HAMMER TIME

Personally, I'd take it to a PC repair shop. Somewhere decent, as a last, last, resort to scrapping it. I'm hoping instead though, the last resort (here) brings you some luck. Id say your best chance here is if someone knows where the bios reset is, after that its most likely fatal hardware failure.
 
Wrekriem said:
Personally, I'd take it to a PC repair shop.
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Don't bother unless it's worth it and make sure you've tried EVERYTHING first if you do.

Laptop repairs are vastly more expensive than PC ones.

Place down the road charges £46/H and a large computer chain charges a £229 flat fee o.0
 
I'm not keen on paying for it to be repaired, the diagnosis fee is probably greater than the value of the laptop and the inclination to just tell me it needs a new motherboard & pocket the diagnosis fee would be too great I think.

I can't get over being unable to find a battery on either side of the board, could have sworn laptops used one. It's presumably possible to achieve the same thing by identifying the bios chip and shorting a couple of the legs, this is where I'm putting hope at the moment.

£229 flat? Madness, absolute madness.
 
Well that's embarressing, I thought this was a speaker. Found on the website linked above, thank you
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So, lets see how this goes. I'll leave the battery out for a while, see if it revives itself. To think that I stripped the entire thing apart looking for that, for shame :(

OcUK for the win. It lives. Doesn't know the date, or time, and is probably going to complain that I've taken its hard drive away, but it lives. Awesome. :D
 
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Sounds silly but did you push the output select button usually something like fn+F6 when attached to an external display?

Could be that the backlight has gone on the laptop display and its not automatically switching output to the external?
 
It doesn't think much of wireless cards and I know it's got one, and I think I'm going to change the cmos battery. Otherwise all's well that ends well. I'm very happy, and very tired. Good night :)
 
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