Hi, i own a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and it has died on me recently due to overheating. The symptoms were that you would boot into windows and minutes after booting up the system would freeze completly and you would have to restart. However when you restart, the laptop doesn't even post and all that happens is the caps lock light blinks 10 times then powers down and every time you turn it on, it does the blinking thing. The screen doesn't even turn on either. Once I let it cool down, it will load into windows and the problem starts all over again. I've done some research and have found that the only way that people have fixed this issue was to send it to Dell, however my laptop is out of warrenty and the cost to repair a 4 - 5 year old laptop would be the same as buying a new one.
From what i've learned, people have said that the "power chips" need replacing, and another person said that sometimes the DC power card in the laptop that attaches the motherboard sometimes burns out and causes problems. I was wondering wether someone had a more definite answer to this problem. I've gone through all the standard trouble shooting, removing the laptop memory, putting one in at a time, swapping it for the other, resetting the heat sync, etc.
Laptop Specs
Windows XP Professional
1.8Ghz Pentium 4 M
1x128Mb standard memory
1x512Mb Generic memory
40Gb hd
CDRW
32Mb NVidia GeForce 440 Go
Thanks.
From what i've learned, people have said that the "power chips" need replacing, and another person said that sometimes the DC power card in the laptop that attaches the motherboard sometimes burns out and causes problems. I was wondering wether someone had a more definite answer to this problem. I've gone through all the standard trouble shooting, removing the laptop memory, putting one in at a time, swapping it for the other, resetting the heat sync, etc.
Laptop Specs
Windows XP Professional
1.8Ghz Pentium 4 M
1x128Mb standard memory
1x512Mb Generic memory
40Gb hd
CDRW
32Mb NVidia GeForce 440 Go
Thanks.