Inspiron notebooks they purchased are defective. Specifically, the lawsuit applies to the 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150 or 5160 Inspiron notebook models. The lawsuit claims the computers are susceptible to overheating and possible motherboard failure, but Dell decided...

the computer to protect the CPU when you tried to start it. 2) Motherboard failure - requires a replacement motherboard. There may be other possibilities, but you did not tell us the age of the system or whether or not someone has rebuilt it, or other...

Detecting Motherboard Failure. Hope there is someone reading that can advise me. I have an Aopen motherboard AX79-400VN that appears to shutdown intermittently. When running a memory test from an XP bootable disk a click or two is heard coming from the...

a hardware solution, if you want to upgrade or have a motherboard failure, you don't have to buy the SAME motherboard... Is it possible to install a hardware RAID card ex-post-factory? And if so, what hardware RAID card is best? ...

a clean reinstall of WinMe in a new folder after > a major crash caused by memory failure. Apart from the alarm bells ringing re: memory failure, not too sure what you mean by "a new folder" following a "clean install" - so let's ignore the 'memory...

If the CPU "failed" then the system would power down correctly or at least try again. So for the motherboard to keep power on but not start and not run the CPU fan, I'd expect that to be a failure on the motherboard's part. It might still possibly be power...

CPU / motherboard failure Bad CPU / motherboard 1 - 1 - 3 CMOS read/write failure Bad motherboard 1 - 1 - 4 BIOS ROM failure Bad BIOS chip 1 - 2 - 1 Timer failure Bad motherboard 1 - 2 - 2 DMA failure Bad motherboard 1 - 2 - 3...

fan turning, I would favor the motherboard failing over the cpu. And Rosewill isn't the greatest power supply. If you replace the motherboard, I suggest a better brand of ps. I use antec, but ocz and corsair are also good. It sounds like a motherboard failure,...

both 4-pin and 24-pin power sources attached to the motherboard show appropriate voltage), but no POST beeb(s)--not fully clothed, not bare-boned, not out of the casing, not after a cosm reset. Seems like a motherboard failure to me. This is a 2 years...