Dell Inspiron E1705 wont POST, only shows black screen

Neo2741 · 10-26-2007, 02:06 AM

Hey, the other day I was playing music with my laptop and all of a sudden it cuts off. Then every time i try to start it up again, It stays at a black screen. Its illuminated, it just wont post or show anything. I can hear all the parts moving. I tried:

-removing the battery and replacing it, and then tried starting it up again with no battery and just a power cord.
-I tried reseating the RAM in all combinations

Have any ideas? I hope it not the Hard drive, i will test that later (alot of important info on that thing, im stupid for not backing up.)

I was thinking maybe it was the RAM. One detail i should mention, I live in Italy and was using a converter for it. It worked fine for a very long time before. I wa thinking possibly it may have short ciruited a component or two. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. (haha i cant call back home due to no voip phone

**TheMatt** · 10-26-2007, 03:13 PM

How many of RAM do you have? Usually it is very rare for both to develop problems at the same time.

Try booting up with no hard drive plugged in and see what happens. Usually a dead hard drive will not cause the computer to fail to POST.

Also, try hooking up an external monitor and see if you get anything.

Neo2741 · 10-27-2007, 07:13 AM

Well I have 2 sticks of 512mb ram. I thought it was wierd too. Well i hooked it up to a monitor today and now I can get to the windows loading screen, but the backround shows a bunch of blue squares like checkers and after it gets to that screen the monitor turns off. I'm thinking it may be the motherboard going bad. Because I could get to windows in safe mode, but it was extremely slow and the device manager said I had all the correct components with no errors. Hmmmmmm

i will try taking all the parts inside and reinserting them.

10-26-2007, 02:06 AM	#1 (permalink)
Neo2741 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 29 OS: Windows xp	Dell Inspiron E1705 wont POST, only shows black screen Hey, the other day I was playing music with my laptop and all of a sudden it cuts off. Then every time i try to start it up again, It stays at a black screen. Its illuminated, it just wont post or show anything. I can hear all the parts moving. I tried: -removing the battery and replacing it, and then tried starting it up again with no battery and just a power cord. -I tried reseating the RAM in all combinations Have any ideas? I hope it not the Hard drive, i will test that later (alot of important info on that thing, im stupid for not backing up.) I was thinking maybe it was the RAM. One detail i should mention, I live in Italy and was using a converter for it. It worked fine for a very long time before. I wa thinking possibly it may have short ciruited a component or two. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. (haha i cant call back home due to no voip phone

10-26-2007, 03:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
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10-27-2007, 07:13 AM	#3 (permalink)
Neo2741 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 29 OS: Windows xp	Re: Dell Inspiron E1705 wont POST, only shows black screen Well I have 2 sticks of 512mb ram. I thought it was wierd too. Well i hooked it up to a monitor today and now I can get to the windows loading screen, but the backround shows a bunch of blue squares like checkers and after it gets to that screen the monitor turns off. I'm thinking it may be the motherboard going bad. Because I could get to windows in safe mode, but it was extremely slow and the device manager said I had all the correct components with no errors. Hmmmmmm i will try taking all the parts inside and reinserting them.