Tanuki Tales
2014-04-10, 07:49 PM
So, I've had this Dell laptop of mine for about...five or six years now and it's served me well up until recently. Ever since the plastic around one of the opening hinges cracked and got busted, I've noticed that its proclivity to crash from overheating or going into sleep mode has risen (I'm not saying they're linked, just that I noticed it around then). This is an issue in of itself, but not the one I'm here about:
Every so often, when my comp goes into sleep mode (which happens after 3 minutes with the plug in and 1 minute without), when I go to boot it up, it will turn off instead of turning on. Then, when I attempt to turn it on, the light will glow for less than a second and it will make the noise it makes when it begins to power up, multiple times in quick succession, before just flat failing to power up. It will take three or more attempts before the thing will finally decide to actually turn back on.
So...what's wrong, how can I fix and should I get a new laptop?
Every so often, when my comp goes into sleep mode (which happens after 3 minutes with the plug in and 1 minute without), when I go to boot it up, it will turn off instead of turning on. Then, when I attempt to turn it on, the light will glow for less than a second and it will make the noise it makes when it begins to power up, multiple times in quick succession, before just flat failing to power up. It will take three or more attempts before the thing will finally decide to actually turn back on.
So...what's wrong, how can I fix and should I get a new laptop?