Hi All,
Interesting problem with this POS Dell 1520. My classmate sent it to me from NY, it arrived in fine shape the issue is that it had no hard drive and no ram missing the hinge cover all that's doable, he sent the oem adapter. I had a known good working 2.5 sitting around and a couple sticks of ram. The unit is cosmetically fine. So I drop in the ram and the drive plug it in wait a few hours walla battery is fully charged so I hit the power button and power light comes on, tic toc tic toc that was then the power light off. So I was ok I will run through the motions. I pulled the battery did the cycle routing blah blah. Shoot no go, did the shine the flash light thing on the screen, nothing.
So I ran through the memory thing, swapped slots confirmed the fan comes on, popped in a brand new drive checked the keyboard, checked all the screws undid the keyboard everything is good. So I put all that back together hooked up my test monitor (yes I know about the F/N key) still no video. So I took the ram out of my personal laptop nothing. I called him and told him were looking at a new mobo he is like ok find out and let me know. I found one but this morning I decided to strip it down and see what if anything was going on inside. I stripped it down and too my surprise I would eat off the inside of that machine......yes it has integrated graphics the power jack is independent of the mobo and it isn't loose in its mount. In fact for a laptop that age damn thing is in excellent shape except it don't work.
Anybody got any ides I haven't covered here? frankly I am stumped.
Thanx Mac:)
Interesting problem with this POS Dell 1520. My classmate sent it to me from NY, it arrived in fine shape the issue is that it had no hard drive and no ram missing the hinge cover all that's doable, he sent the oem adapter. I had a known good working 2.5 sitting around and a couple sticks of ram. The unit is cosmetically fine. So I drop in the ram and the drive plug it in wait a few hours walla battery is fully charged so I hit the power button and power light comes on, tic toc tic toc that was then the power light off. So I was ok I will run through the motions. I pulled the battery did the cycle routing blah blah. Shoot no go, did the shine the flash light thing on the screen, nothing.
So I ran through the memory thing, swapped slots confirmed the fan comes on, popped in a brand new drive checked the keyboard, checked all the screws undid the keyboard everything is good. So I put all that back together hooked up my test monitor (yes I know about the F/N key) still no video. So I took the ram out of my personal laptop nothing. I called him and told him were looking at a new mobo he is like ok find out and let me know. I found one but this morning I decided to strip it down and see what if anything was going on inside. I stripped it down and too my surprise I would eat off the inside of that machine......yes it has integrated graphics the power jack is independent of the mobo and it isn't loose in its mount. In fact for a laptop that age damn thing is in excellent shape except it don't work.
Anybody got any ides I haven't covered here? frankly I am stumped.
Thanx Mac:)