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    Any Hope for Inspiron 2650 ?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by elijahRW, Aug 26, 2008.

  1. elijahRW

    elijahRW Notebook Deity

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    I have an Inspiron 2650 that I have been using since 2002.
    Today I booted it up and after it passes the bios screen it just has a blinking dash in the top right corner of the screen. It never boots to windows.
    So I put in a windows xp cd and set the bios to boot from the cd drive, but it still did the same thing and just had the blinking cursor.
    I've re-seated the ram, cd drive, and hard drive.

    My guess is that something is failing on the motherboard. Maybe the drive controllers.

    What should I do besides get a new laptop?

    Thanks
     
    elijahRW, Aug 26, 2008
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Have you tried a linux live CD?
     
    atbnet, Aug 26, 2008
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  3. wywern209

    wywern209 NBR Dark Knight

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    how about anew laptop. i think that is better as u laptop is like 6 years old. that was kind of coming for the laptop. a moment of silence for the laptop so it may rest in peace... :D if u have a warranty on it , u can ask dell for something or u can go and buy a new laptop. if u do choose to go the new laptop route, then please fill out the FAQ.
     
    wywern209, Aug 26, 2008
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  4. Nankuru

    Nankuru Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you tried the Dell Support Community forums? I've found some useful stuff there before.
     
    Nankuru, Aug 27, 2008
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