have a dell inspiron 5030, was fine, all of a sudden shut down, now will not boot, have tried everything, safe mode, startup repair, last known good config, everything i try, goes to black screen, then will shut down. even tried to boot to windows dvd so i COULD do a reinstall, but same thing, just keeps shutting down,
any ideas? also, cleaned it , so dont think its over heatingHow did you clean it ? ?
Sounds like you may have dislodged a connector or possibly a jumper...
In the meantime try and borrow a known good PSU of the same or greater wattage and swap it in there OVERNIGHT...you'll know if thats the culprit.the cleaning was after it wasnt working, just blew it out. as for psu, do U mean power adapter? i just tried with battery in only, no adapter and same thing, it shut down
Laptop...nevermind.
Was this unit dropped ? ?no, not dropped, nothing installed recently, when i hit startup repair, it loads, but then black screen for a while, then it shuts downok, i just switched out hard drive with known working one, just to see if that was the problem, but alas, still shut down, could it be ram?
they MADE this thing very hard to get to ramRAM isn't normally a cause of shutdown...have you put in a ticket to the manuf. Support site ? ?
Perhaps they may have some clues...thanks for help, turned out to be a bad hard driveGlad you found out what it was...
Not sure why the HDD would cause shutdowns but at least it's a relatively easy fix.