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    Posted: December 16 2016 at 8:44am
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Thanks. Yes, my aunt can't work/is on a limited income so something less costly is definitely wanted.
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Hey Mark - let me check my office today. I probably have a couple of used laptops, I'd sale cheap.
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There are a number of laptops available for around 200$ if money is an issue. Newegg, bestbuy, etc.
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Thanks everyone for your input. Assuming the motherboard needs to be replaced, I called my aunt Porcia to give her the bad news. "It's about $120" I said. She replied, "Oh, the motherboard has gone out before and been replaced." 
"Well," said I, "if that is the case, then I'd recommend trashing this laptop and looking for another."

Assuming my advice was good, anyone have a laptop for sale? She liked this one with its touch screen function. Smile

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That chip in the picture is the I/O control chip. It should not be making any noise. There is only one way to fix this issue (without some pretty high end equipment) and that is to replace the motherboard. Fairly easy to do but may not be cheap depending on where you can find a replacement one. Good news is that her data and files are probably intact so getting them off the hard drive should be pretty easy with the right equipment.
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Its a Dell eh? Probably would be best to introduce it to a Samsung galaxy note 7. Probably dead but can't really tell... Does the bios not show up at all? Could be a bad power circuit or the cpu is toast... Thats what that little square is attached to.
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I have a 5lb hammer I use to tune my computer up.... you can borrow it if you like.......
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Probably a bad Motherboard, might be cost effective to find one on eBay and swap it.
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Run the hardware diagnostics by holding down the "Fn" key and then pressing the Power button. This will start the diagnostics and will emit beep codes.
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It won't boot up and the screen is blank. The square chip near the center of the photo below makes a plink sound every 2 seconds or so. It's like Dell made it to do this as some kind of alert notification. Confused



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Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop sat around unused for many months because it stopped working after a phone call was made to a web page popup tech service phone number and remote work was done by a microsoft repair scam. (yeah, she knows now that it wasn't Microsoft and it was a bad move Embarrassed )

Repair attempts
Battery removed - no change
Power Button depressed for 15 seconds to discharge circuits - nothing changed
RAM chip removed - no change, still plinking
Hard Drive removed  - still plinking, still won't boot up, screen still blank

Ideas on how I could fix it?  This is for my aunt Porcia. She thanks you in advance.

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