When I powered it on again, the power light came on and the activity light stayed on for about 2 seconds and went off. Also during that time the cd drive light blinked twice. No cd were inside it. The screen stayed off (not even the backlight). Then there was nothing. Tried a few button strokes on the wireless keyboard, but nothing happened.

My windows 8.1 audio driver already had some glitches after I installed the google hangouts Chrome app.

Can anyone tell me what could have gone wrong?

I can dissassemble the whole laptop. I've done it 6 mnths ago to change the hdd and to clean up the dirt.

⟐ Commented September 16, 2015 at 11:00 MST

I'd bought a Dell's AMD version of inspiron 15r laptop about 3 years ago.

I have been experiencing a very annoying and frustrating problem since last few months.

While I was doing some work on it,

the screen went black all of a sudden.

It happened once few hours prior to then, and force rebooting had solved the problem at that time, so I calmed myself and did a force reboot.

But it didn't solve the problem this time.

I tried rebooting 3,4 times, but still no solution.

The screen was black even in the entire process of booting from the beginning.

I also found out that the screen wasn't totally black.

The screen had shown very mere display which was like 0.001% away from perfect dark black.I did as much research as I can for solution, but I couldn't get any good answer..

I couldn't solve it for several hours.

Several hours passed , and I tried booting it up again.

For few minutes, it seemed to be the same old black (or dark) screen.

But it automatically turned back to normal brightness again.

I haven't done anything to it.

Every now and then after working just fine for an hour or so, the screen goes black. The sound and all is clearly audible if a video or audio is playing but there is no display on the screen.

I'm wondering why this is happening..

Can anyone give me an answer to this?

Is it a problem of loosened cable connection to the screen or it is with motherboard or LCD Screen itself ???

⟐ Answered May 19, 2017 at 16:13 MST

⟐ Answer edited June 13, 2017 at 13:02 MST

⟐ Answer accepted October 31, 2017 at 17:53 MST

⟐ Answered May 28, 2015 at 23:02 MST

⟐ Edited August 03, 2015 at 12:15 MST

⟐ Answer accepted July 19, 2018 at 7:29 MST

my laptop was working fine I was trying to update de RAM to 8GB but for some reason the new RAM wasn’t working. When reasearched on the internet it said that a may need to update the BIOS. I when on Dell site and scan the SERVICE CODE after that the sites tells me that I need a assistant and downloaded it. Once I did that it appeared on the screen that a needed a BIOS UPDATE. I click on INSTALL NOW my computer when all black and did a strange sound…

after a while i called Dell support because the laptop wasn’t doing much. The tech guy told me to hold the power button to turn it off but the laptop didn’t went off and then he told me to take out the battery and put it back in. After that the computer screen was all black and was doing a beeping sound. It is only one continuously sound

HELP

Thanks

⟐ Answer accepted December 20, 2022 at 9:36 MST

⟐ Commented July 25, 2018 at 9:24 MST

⟐ Answered April 03, 2018 at 7:17 MST

⟐ Commented January 20, 2017 at 19:45 MST

⟐ Commented October 23, 2018 at 5:44 MST

I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 and I am facing a very strange issue and it’s very frustrating.

My laptop doesn’t turn on if battery is attached. To switch on , I have to remove battery, connect AC adapter then press power key. Once it’s on, I put back the battery and laptop works as normal(even when I remove the power cable it runs on battery fine).

I see the battery is getting charged and discharged. Only problem is during startup.

I got it checked in PC repair centre but no luck.

Any ideas guys ?

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⟐ Commented August 18, 2016 at 19:25 MST