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Start up but no screen?

  • 30-08-2011 12:10pm
    #1
    Technoi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Hi All,
    I have a t1600 Precision which is acting oddly but can't seem to track it down.
    Symptoms are when I turn on the machine it sounds like its booting up but there is no screen at all. I then need to turn it off and restart and then it boots normally.
    Yesterday Dell Engineer came out and replaced system board and graphics (nvidia quadro 600) and lo and behold its doing the same thing.
    Anyone come across anything like this or how to resolve it?

    Thanks
    Technoi


Comments

  • #2
    techfeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭techfeen


    Thats a strange one, i would of thought of the graphics straight away.

    Did you try hooking it up to an external monitor?


  • #3
    Kantes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭Kantes


    Try different ram

    If it's booting the odd time it's probably not the ram but often faulty ram means nothing will appear on the screen.


  • #4
    techfeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭techfeen


    ya you could try replacing the ram, one chip a time


  • #5
    Technoi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Technoi


    Hi All,
    Thanks for the replies. Will try the ram as suggested. I have access to another hdd so might format it and load the os and see how that gets on. Won't get to it for a week now though as am away. Will update as soon as I get some time at it.

    Cheers
    T


  • #6
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Look at the screen, if you have a tourch or something shine a light, can you see in the dark any picture, if so its probably an LCD Inverter problem, or a backlight one. Inverters going is common enough, do try the RAM option could be as simple as that! I wouldn't bother formatting the hard drive, if you don't even see the Dell boot up logo its not a hard drive problem

    Nick

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  • #7
    Big Lar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Big Lar


    If the dell engineer replaced some parts only the other day I would leave it to them in case you shag up your warranty


  • #8
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Kantes wrote: »
    Try different ram

    If it's booting the odd time it's probably not the ram but often faulty ram means nothing will appear on the screen.
    The PC can boot with faulty RAM, I had faulty ram for a while, sometimes it worked fine other times it caused all sorts of weird problems.


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