Solved! Dell Inspiron 6400 stopped booting

[dividebyzero]

I have a two year old Dell inspiron 6400. I stopped booting last night. No BIOS screen.

When I press the power button, the fan starting running, power LED turns solid green. Disk activity light turn green for a couple seconds then turns off. Battery status LED turns green for a second then turns off. Number Lock, CAPS LOCK and the LOCK with a down arrow all turns green for a second then turns off.

If I put in a CD, it starts spinning.

Pressing the power button again turns it off.

Any ideas?

 

[frozenlead]

Sounds pretty serious, but let's see what we can do.

First, disconnect anything you can from the notebook - network cards, CD drives, hard disk, battery, etc.

Then plug it in to an external monitor, power it from AC, and try and boot.

 

[dividebyzero]

Did you mean taking out the INTERNAL cards and drives?

 

[dividebyzero]

I just tried taking out the two memory modules and put them back in one by one and switch positions as suggested by another thread about a dead Inspiron E1505 and still no difference.

 

[frozenlead]

That will include the internal cards and drives, yes. Your computer doesn't need them to function.

 

[cipher5]

if all the lites on the system just flash for a second a turns off then the issue is with the mobo