Re: Dell D620 not booting, intermittent

I have found 2 pads near the keyboard connector p/sw that were covered in glue, i have removed the glue, and shorted these out, and it still does the same, only flashing numlock, capslock, scroll lock, power light for a few seconds. I know when it's going to boot correctly, because when the lights come on, the HDD light will illuminate at the same time

I have a Dell D620 that doesn't always turn on. When you press the power button the numlock, capslock, scroll lock, power light and wifi light come on for about 3 secs then go off. Then without moving anything, it will turn on ok. It does this if either powered on mains, or battery only. I have tried the reset trick, and have also re-seated memory, hard drive etc. Does anyone have any ideas?? I have seen another thread on here about powering on without the keyboard, but I can't make the picture out. Does anyone have the schematics for this board to bypass power button?

With power plug connected, it charges ok. When you hit the power button, the led on the button lights for 1 sec then goes off. Tried pulling ram, hard drive, dvd, wifi card. Also tried the reset, battery off, hold power button for 30 secs then power back up via the jack. Had motherboard out, all looks ok but still only getting led for 1 second, no beeps, no fan and no screen! Also tried it with processor removed, still the same.

It's an i5 about 15months old.

Lad at work said it made a buzzing noise, then he turned it off that night, and now shows above symptoms when...

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Hi All

My name is Alan, I like tinkering around and fixing things for friends and family wherever possible, Be it computers or mobiles, however I don't have much experience with SMT components but can follow instructions, I will help others wherever I can.

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