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A'ight gonna copy paste what I posted somewhere else.
I am completely unable to make my laptop give POST or boot the BIOS, specifically if I put the battery in or put it on the charge and press the power button is turns off almost immediately. Then if I turn it on again it remains at a black screen. The thing is I've gotten to boot before but I've been unable to update the BIOS due when I go to restart my machine it won't restart properly and stays in it's little retarded black screen state. My only theory is that the BIOS is corrupted, or the MB is fried but the laptop has ran fine before no problems or indication of any problems. Specifics is that it's a Dell Latitude E6530, quad core i7, 4 gigs of RAM,Nvidida NVS5200,etc,etc. What might be my fucking problem?
 
Try pluggin in it's HDMI to a monitor or TV to see if any image responds. Usually a busted bios still gives you a POST message so that's possibly out of the question. You either have some display issues or the video chip on the motherboard popped off due to the heat.
 
Disorder said:
Try pluggin in it's HDMI to a monitor or TV to see if any image responds. Usually a busted bios still gives you a POST message so that's possibly out of the question. You either have some display issues or the video chip on the motherboard popped off due to the heat.

Already done that, sadly it didn't show anything besides a blank screen.
 
Any other ideas I've tried the fucking external monitor atleast 5 times. Secondly it's not giving POST when it should so I never see the BIOS screen.
 
Is it still under warranty?

If not, open the bottom up (you should see panels with screws holding them in) and take the RAM sticks out one at a time. Bad RAM sticks will act exactly like that. Even if it is, you can usually open the memory bit up without voiding it since it's a fairly simple thing to do. Just don't puncture any paper/sticker type things if you see one.
 
Arzalis said:
Is it still under warranty?

If not, open the bottom up (you should see panels with screws holding them in) and take the RAM sticks out one at a time. Bad RAM sticks will act exactly like that. Even if it is, you can usually open the memory bit up without voiding it since it's a fairly simple thing to do. Just don't puncture any paper/sticker type things if you see one.
Had tried that before, I don't know if I helped but maybe day or two after I managed to boot it atleast 5 times in a row, still couldn't update my BIOS.
 
Dunno, if it's under warranty I'd advise shipping it in at this point. It's definitely some kind of hardware failure. Laptops are a little difficult to work on by yourself since you don't really have access to most of it.
 
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