Someone who has a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and they are unable to
switch the laptop on, it cause of many reasons. Beside the power,
memory can also make this trouble comes. One important thing you can
do to know it, better check the laptop power first by press the power
button and watch the effect. Did you hear the fan or hard drive
spinning? If you heard it, means the power is fine. And you can go to
the next step to make sure that it was the memory problem.
Dell Inspiron 5150 memory laptop shows some sign when it functions is
fail. You can hear the hear the fan and hard drive spinning there is
no activity on the LCD screen, no Dell startup screen, not even back
light power. And only one led light on, it may battery charge
indicator. If it so, it could be the memory problem. If there are two
pieces memory DIMM on your Dell 5150 laptop, release one and back the
machine on. And try with one other memory to make sure which the bad
one.
Now let’s check the Dell Inspiron 5150 battery by charge it to any
else. If the battery doing well and able to power up the laptop, means
there are other reason:
AC/DC jack on motherboard or USB and the DC jack connectors has a
problem. You can try to fix it by use a solder.
The Schmidt trigger chip near the DC jack has a problem. You can fix
it by applying torsional force on laptop and pressing the laptop it
near the power button. This way sometimes make it contact temporarily
to get the power on Dell 5150. Be careful with the mild bending of the
motherboard while doing this.
DC adapter is bad. Buy a new one and make sure that it match.
Other relevance things with Dell 5150 power’s problem you should know are:
Overheating could make the laptop power down within times of booting
when too hot. If it comes you can try to open the laptop. And clean
the fan and related wind outlets from the dirt and dust. Better do
this at least once every 5 – 6 months.