
My laptop is short circuiting, and now it can not turn on when I press the power button. the adapter light green but once i put it into the laptop and try to power it up, the adapter light turns off. I give a call to Dell Customer service to get some help, My god they said there are something wrong with my motherboard so I shoud replace a new one with 400$ (the laptop is out of warranty). If I can repair it by myself the 400$ is too expensive? The laptop is an Dell inspiron 1501 battery. Thanks!
Generally physical or electrical damage in your laptop can cause a short circuit. A short circuit will consume all available energy, can not turn on laptop. If your Dell studio 15 battery power supply is lit when plugde into the wall, but then turns off when you plug in the laptop, you probably have a short circuit.
Troubleshooting Shorts
An ohmmeter / multimeter reading less than ~ 3 ohms, if you go to the resistance between the sides of the power in a short circuit. When used Measureing between the power pins and then go to the back of the computer, consider the pins 2, where it is expected that the voltage on the AC adapter. If the resistance indicates a short circuit, this is bad.
A common trick is to isolate the possible problems to eliminate all that it could be a short circuit. Remove the Dell studio 1537 battery, hard drive, DVD / CD, floppy, PCMCIA cards, USB, Mini-PCI cards. See if your computer back on.
You might luck with a thermal imaging camera (see article below), a hot spot caused by the short circuit to find.
Fluid loss
Once a spill occurs, you may want to disable the laptop, turn the laptop upside down (so that the fluid leaves the same way you came), remove the motor and the Dell vostro 1000 battery and let dry at least overnight.
The computer shuts off randomly
The equipment can shut off: congestion in the power supply, overheated processor locked / fan, overheating of the Dell studio 1737 battery , slide the power switch, Windows says the BIOS says loose wires (especially the power cord ) or intermittent short circuit.
The most common problem is cooling. Try a little air conditioning there. End when the fan is defective or clogged with dust (common over HP-problem).
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