Dell Inspiron 600m shuts off

[fj62alex]

Hi,

I would like to hear some opinion about an issue with Dell Inspiron 600m.
1. After I turn it on, it shuts of after displaying Windows logo scren.
2. Tried the safe mode, stayed for about 2 minutes --> turned itself off.
3. Battery charger is making some noise when it's plugged in, but I checked the voltage and its 19.5Volts.

I turned it on and noticed that the fan is not coming on. Now, the question is: is it a bad fan or there is something else causing the fan not to come on?????

Any suggestions and recommendations would be appreciated.

thanks,
Alex

 

[tf1]

I think the fan is a red herrings as laptop fans usually don't run continuously and even if it was, surely the CPU wouldn't overheat during boot up.

When you start the laptop, does Windows startup bring up the message about failing to start properly last time and would you like to switch to the last known good configuration?

If you interrupt boot and go into BIOS, is there a hardware monitor that tells you the status of the fans? Can you change the fan to run continuously in BIOS? Do the voltages look OK?


Regards: Terry

 

[kjv1611]

After you've checked out the things tf1 mentioned, another step you could try is disconnecting the hard drive completely, and booting from a bootable Livd CD of a Linux Distro, such as

http://www.Ubuntu.com

If it boots and runs fine with Ubuntu or whatever you go with, then chances are it's the hard drive.

If it DOESN'T run the LiveCD, then it's some other hardware - possibly the motherboard in this case, I think... or maybe the RAM.

You can run some various diagnostics with the apps on UBCD.

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