:banghead: I have a dell Xps m2010 laptop which had the problem of laptop screen freezing, ultra slow bootup .
it was repaired by dell in may 2011 where they replaced motherboard, hdd, ram and ultimately replacement of graphics card solved the problem.
it suddenly stopped booting up in feb 2012, i can see the power lights come up, hdd light coming up and thats it.
After googling the problem of dell mxs m2010 not booting up i came to the know that actual cause of the problem is graphics card.
Apparently there is not proper contact between heat sink and the graphics card or/ and the thermal paste has spread on the dye thus causing short cercuit and stopping laptop from booting up.
As per the solution shown- i disconnected the heat sink to find that actually the thermal paste was on the sorrounding cercuit board dye. i cleaned it up and it started just to hang/ freeze later, it will take some 5-6 attempts after it to turn on again where it will again freeze.
I found out that there are some 12-13 chips on the grahics card while have corrosponding blue thermal paste kind of stuff on the heatsink solution, these blue thermal paste actually get in contact after lots of tightening of the screws on the heatsink but still some where not in proper contact. I assumed these certain chips are not getting properly cooled leading to laptop freeze up/ failed boot
I put some thermal paste on the blue ic coller/ thermal paste and hurrey it started to boot up reguraly, only again it will freeze after 20 or so mins.
the thermal paste is the best quality i could find, it looks like an injection and i took proper care so as it does not spread on nieghbouring circuit board.
please help me out as i find dell online tech support crappy and the in home warranty is expired, this is my work laptop and i run solid works on it hence its thermal stability is critical for me .:grin:
the laptop has 4gb ram and recently replaced hdd, hdd does not make any funny noise if that helps!
it was repaired by dell in may 2011 where they replaced motherboard, hdd, ram and ultimately replacement of graphics card solved the problem.
it suddenly stopped booting up in feb 2012, i can see the power lights come up, hdd light coming up and thats it.
After googling the problem of dell mxs m2010 not booting up i came to the know that actual cause of the problem is graphics card.
Apparently there is not proper contact between heat sink and the graphics card or/ and the thermal paste has spread on the dye thus causing short cercuit and stopping laptop from booting up.
As per the solution shown- i disconnected the heat sink to find that actually the thermal paste was on the sorrounding cercuit board dye. i cleaned it up and it started just to hang/ freeze later, it will take some 5-6 attempts after it to turn on again where it will again freeze.
I found out that there are some 12-13 chips on the grahics card while have corrosponding blue thermal paste kind of stuff on the heatsink solution, these blue thermal paste actually get in contact after lots of tightening of the screws on the heatsink but still some where not in proper contact. I assumed these certain chips are not getting properly cooled leading to laptop freeze up/ failed boot
I put some thermal paste on the blue ic coller/ thermal paste and hurrey it started to boot up reguraly, only again it will freeze after 20 or so mins.
the thermal paste is the best quality i could find, it looks like an injection and i took proper care so as it does not spread on nieghbouring circuit board.
please help me out as i find dell online tech support crappy and the in home warranty is expired, this is my work laptop and i run solid works on it hence its thermal stability is critical for me .:grin:
the laptop has 4gb ram and recently replaced hdd, hdd does not make any funny noise if that helps!