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Dell Inspiron 1526: Inspiron 1526 - Bad motherboards galore

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:09:40 -0700

I picked up a dell inspiron 1526 locally to tinker with and it seems to power on somewhat but the leds are not correct and the dvd drive will not even eject. The fans spin and the wifi led flashes orange / blue. From the research i have dones there seems to have been a ton of problems with the motherboard . Has anyone had experience with this particular unit? I hope to maybe be able to repair ir if it was bad caps or bad solder joints or something instead of just parting it out. Also i love this site but is there any other online community of laptop repair people - like i see guys advertising logicboard repairs and services other than just part swapping and i would like to learn more about this myself

⟐ Commented October 03, 2014 at 19:09 MST

Dell Inspiron 1526: Blank screen at start up

Wed, 13 May 2015 02:42:54 -0700

When I turn the laptop on the screen stays blank.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

⟐ Commented May 13, 2015 at 2:42 MST

Dell Inspiron 1526: My laptop didnot save date and time after shutdown

Sat, 22 Oct 2016 02:44:17 -0700

my laptop did not save time and date after shutdown

⟐ Answered October 22, 2016 at 2:44 MST

Dell Inspiron 1526: Account user name changed

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:56:09 -0700

When I logged on to my laptop today, my user name had changed from my name to my email address, without anyone changing it. What happened? Should I be worried? How do I change it back?

Dell Inspiron 1526: Laptop turns on but does not detect a ac adapter ...

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:54:32 -0700

The laptop does turn on and boots as long as a battery has juice but when plugging in multiple power supply's it simply will not detect one being plugged in. In the bios and in windows it doesn't show plugged in like it doesn't exist.

One weird thing I notice is when plugging in a charger the brightness of the screen changes very I want to say brighter but now cant remember, could be dimmer.

One thing I did is with a volt meter I measured the readings from the jack on the motherboard with no charger plugged in and it measures like 3.5 volts something like that, when I do plug in a charger it actually reads some voltages, it reads like 16.5 volts. Should it be reading like 19.5 volts or is this volts of 16.5 good? anyone know whats up? Thanks

⟐ Edited March 18, 2015 at 18:54 MST