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Laptop Screen is Black - Solved
Boggin:
As Shane has suggested, tap F2 as you switch on to see if it will boot up into the BIOS.
As you haven't mentioned any error beeps, I've Googled for error LED flashes and found http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19501368 so check those out to see what it is doing.
Depending upon what you find, the User or Service manuals should be of use.
I don't have time to read through them myself to see if they have anything more definitive on the error flashes.
User - ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_inspiron_laptop/inspiron-1521_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf
Service - ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_inspiron_laptop/inspiron-1521_Owner%27s%20Manual2_en-us.pdf
jraju:
Normally, if laptop is black, pl try shane and boggins ideas. Tap F2 to go to BIOS and there will be usual boot check the memory and system. Run this diagnostics , if it passes 100%, then try to boot oncemore. If all fails , it will be better to insert the same DVD OS in the dvd drive and try to boot from DVD . The version should be exact. Then when starting Windows thro DVD, if you could go to command prompt, thro DVD, then you could try FIXMBR to correct any corrupted master boot record.
Which OS you have. you had not mentioned that. This will work for windows xp OS. If you could go to boot the DVD installation and thro it to the command prompt, the problem will be fixed by fixmbr command.
I had the same problem and since my system was windows xp, i just boot thro the window xp cd and then type fixmbr. It worked
Boggin:
These are the specs for that machine that says it comes with Vista HP and has an AMD processor http://www.cnet.com/products/dell-inspiron-1520/specs/
jraju:
Hi, Boggins
Long time no see.
I had problem with my windows xp, which was some what easy to repair. But the TO's, Sandyg's machine is Vista and I do not know, whether the installation DVD other than the original OS would allow. Even i did not boot with the original, but the same version of other cd, and i could log on to command prompt to fixmbr.
Then i did the first two BIOs test to boot, it came successfully so that i could access the cd drive. Vista has a totally different set up OS file. I do not know whether that will allow the command prompt thro installation dvd. I had difficult experience with Vistas, which is neither XP easy or Windows 7 easy, concerning OS installation.
SandyG:
I have no idea how this happened. I was trying all your suggestions. It was totally black later and not even a hint of the Dell Splash screen. I tried booting using F2, nothing. I took out battery, used power button to release all power, reset memory chip, nothing. Download Ubunktu. Tried booting from USB with that on it, nothing. I took that USB out, took out the USB for the mouse and tried booting using F8. The screen came up! I went into BIOS, checked the boot sequence, it was normal. All appeared normal. I put the mouse USB back in. No problems. Windows had some updated downloads. I downloaded them and the computer went black again. Got it to come back with Cnt-Alt-Delete. Cleaned the computer, ran Tweaking.com as it was a bit slow. Everything is booting normal and the screen seems fine. I have no idea if the combination of trying different things helped. I don't know if it was stuck on the mouse USB boot, but I don't think so. But for now, it is working. I am skeptical that perhaps something is still going to the bad, but maybe not. Maybe it was just stuck somehow. Thanks for all the suggestions. Something worked.
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