[ale] OT: dell inspiron problems

[James P. Kinney III]

With no post beeps at all (since you didn't mention any) I would suspect
the cpu is toasted or the ram is trashed. Basically, the box can't find
anything to work with.

The other issue may be a bad bios. If a flashing went wrong, the bios
may not be able to initialize anything. 

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:08, Geoffrey wrote:
> Got a friends Dell Inspiron.  When you try to boot it, you hear the fans 
> kick on for a few seconds, then they shut off.  Nothing ever comes to 
> the screen. The power led is on and stays on. Anyone have any ideas 
> where to look first?
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