hi guys hope you can help this lappy was working fine for my mate until recently but now it wont boot ill show a pic on here in a min of what its doing whats happening now is the lights come on well one of them it comes up with dell inspiron then the screen goes all funny and the fan isnt kicking in he got a virus on here about 2 weeks ago a trojan horse win 32 exe and i couldnt remove it so thought id reformat his hdd in my lappy did so succesfully but it still wont boot up i dloaded a bios driver from dell to see if the bios was corrupt or even needed updating put in the disc the bios is set to boot fronm the rom drive but it wont spin up the disc so i cant reflash the bios i cant see jack s**t on the screen so connected to external monitor and still doing same thing so is it poss the processor is fooked if i power down the lappy and turn it will have a clear screen for about 15 secs then go tits up again if i cant get it to read from the rom drive im not sure what to do ive tried another rom drive but to no avail any suggestions guys im maybe guessing bcos i formatted his hdd in my lappy and not his it hasnt picked up the drivers for his rom drive but i cant get win xp disc to load on it either as it seems like fan or processor hasnt kicked in could this virus of fooked the bios up at all please help if you can all help is much appreciated here is a pic of the screen thanks guys
dell inspiron 8600 died
- Thread starter clamdog
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mate it seems like the graphics card in the laptop has gone buggered and that bad news. altho it is not a known issue on dells.
firmly put some pressure on the top right handside of the laptop (not the screen) and see what happens.
im quite confident with laptops, what i'd so was blow some air into the fans and graphics card and try clean it out to see if it sorts it out. if it was totally buggered screen would have broken static but on the pic it seems equally spread out so i might be wrong. try cleaning the fan out and if you can clean the graphis card bit out.
firmly put some pressure on the top right handside of the laptop (not the screen) and see what happens.
im quite confident with laptops, what i'd so was blow some air into the fans and graphics card and try clean it out to see if it sorts it out. if it was totally buggered screen would have broken static but on the pic it seems equally spread out so i might be wrong. try cleaning the fan out and if you can clean the graphis card bit out.
just tried what you said about the screen but no change i turned off then on and it came up clear again and i got it to go to good known configuration and hit eneter but screen jst stays black so processor seems my bet damn
davelichfield
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Try searching the net for "dell diagnostic disc".
I have one of these for latitude series and it helps when faulting a machine, but I don't know if this one would work with inspiron laptop's.
I have one of these for latitude series and it helps when faulting a machine, but I don't know if this one would work with inspiron laptop's.
sfuk
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right
thw first job of the day is to plug in an external screen. I dont think you will get much but you might be lucky. If the graphics card is deaded you wont get anything out on a monitor If it does then you probably have a busted graphics controller. When you turn the laptop listen for the hdd counting the memory. This is called a power on self test or post. if you cant hear post you could have a busted cpu. Just bear in mind that on some laptops, post is silent. If you have gone through all of that then you may want to open it up and have a look. if after that you have a new doorstop, ebay is always good
thw first job of the day is to plug in an external screen. I dont think you will get much but you might be lucky. If the graphics card is deaded you wont get anything out on a monitor If it does then you probably have a busted graphics controller. When you turn the laptop listen for the hdd counting the memory. This is called a power on self test or post. if you cant hear post you could have a busted cpu. Just bear in mind that on some laptops, post is silent. If you have gone through all of that then you may want to open it up and have a look. if after that you have a new doorstop, ebay is always good
ok used external lappy still get the same pic on that as i posted on here managed to reformat the hdd in this lappy and it was all fine rebooeted and started to go funny again i installed graphics driver still no go i do need to update the bios though the only driver for the bios on dell website is for 2005 please can someone point me in the right direction for a latest update for the bios on this laptop ive just dloaded the diagnostic drivers for it and will have a go tomorrow but as screen goes funny cant always see what it says bloody pain ive already had it apart cant see any probs with it as i say sometimes when it boots its perfect then goes funny again cheers so far peep
It looks like you gfx chip is overheating. You should be easily able to remove the keyboard on this model and have a look at how dusty it is.
- Remove the bezel above the keyboard, it should only be clipped in and should out with a bit of GENTLE persuation.
- This should expose the screws for the keyboard which you can remove.
- GENTLEY lift the keyboard, there should be a ribbon cable that connects the keyboard to the motherboard. Make a note of which way round it goes.
I think on this model, the GFX card is on a daughter board and not mounted on the motherboard.
- Remove the bezel above the keyboard, it should only be clipped in and should out with a bit of GENTLE persuation.
- This should expose the screws for the keyboard which you can remove.
- GENTLEY lift the keyboard, there should be a ribbon cable that connects the keyboard to the motherboard. Make a note of which way round it goes.
I think on this model, the GFX card is on a daughter board and not mounted on the motherboard.
davelichfield
Inactive User
It looks now as if you just need the correct vga driver.
Now the screen is working in a fashion, can you go the dell website, enter the service tag number and download all the correct drivers?
Now the screen is working in a fashion, can you go the dell website, enter the service tag number and download all the correct drivers?
ive put in the vga driver and done all the updates but ive noticed that it has a old bios version but i cant find a newer one than whats on the dell website thats back in 05 does anyone know how i can flash the bios with a more update driver also screen seems to ok when running without power supply but when i plug in power supply it goes all fuzzy again can the power supply be spiking the motherboard or is there a bad earth and what i have found also that if the screen goes snowy and i change the settings from 1200 x 800 to 1024x728 its all clear again for a fair while and vice versa if it goes snowy again
