Just about 3 months out of its warranty, one of Dell Inspiron 1526 user can’t get his laptop turn on. After trying to boot up for a few times then he can turn it on. Unfortunately his laptop only wakes up for a few seconds, after then his Dell Inspiron 1526 laptop shutdown by itself.

There are many possibility causes and solutions of the computer shutdown by itself you can found here in this site. However if you’re already check the Inspiron 1526 memory modules and it doesn’t fix the problem, it seems like a faulty mainboard. And replace it will cost you high enough.

If you’re lost any ideas to turn the 1526 back on, make sure that you’re already try this way.

If a system won’t power up, check the power supply. Here you need to be sure the LED is ON. Then try without the battery, if the machine is boot, means the battery is bad, so replace the battery with a new one. If it won’t, try reseating the memory module(s) by remove and reinstall.

In some cases running the drivers and utilities DVD that came with Inspiron 1526 can make it starts up. If this trick is working well,
means every time shut the laptop off you need to start it with that method.

The user of the Dell Inspiron 1525 with OS Windows Vista Home Premium said he’s just experience one annoying problem. Each time plug his 1525 laptop in to charge and close the lid, that laptop restarts by itself. And the funny thing is when it’s not charging everything is work normally.

There are several ways to fix the restart by itself of Dell Inspiron
1525 with Windows Vista Home Premium installed, here are some
solutions you can try:

Solution 1:
- Go to MSConfig
- Click on the startup tab and disable all by unchecking the box.
- Reboot the Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop.

If the same problem still appears then it seem like an operating
system issue. Just go back into the MSConfig and only enable the
programs that you feel you need to run when windows boots up

Solution 2:
Go to the bios setting and change the boot order to boot from CDROM
first then put your Windows CD in. Follow the system’s instruction to
repair.

Solution 3:
In case those all solution still doesn’t fixed the problem, you should
remove all removable hardware of your Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop such
as graphics card, USB devices, etc. If it gets further in the boot
sequence, you can replace them one by one until you find which is
causing of the restart problem.

However reformat the Dell 1525 laptop using the Dell recovery disks is
the easiest thing to do but here you will lose all the data you keep
inside. To do this you can put in the recovery disk and run the
diagnostics.

Another solution you can try isDownload & install the latest BIOS update and Video driver update.