According to Dell Customer Support....
I killed my laptop motherboard!!!! T___________T NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
How the hell do you kill a motherboard just by opening up the compytron? All I know is that the damned thing no longer turns on at all.
Battery in battery bay: doesn't do a damn thing when I hit power. But that's been a longstanding issue.
Battery in modular bay: causes my LEDs to blink continuously. WTF?
AC power: Lights come on for a second, then die. Double WTF?
And according to Dell, that means the motherboard is FUBAR. And it's not worth the money to replace it, I know...I've had to check that before when my monitor went kaput. Hmm...maybe I can swap the hard drive into the other laptop long enough to put critical files online (since the other lappy will get online, but not connect to the other compytron)
How the hell do you kill a motherboard just by opening up the compytron? All I know is that the damned thing no longer turns on at all.
Battery in battery bay: doesn't do a damn thing when I hit power. But that's been a longstanding issue.
Battery in modular bay: causes my LEDs to blink continuously. WTF?
AC power: Lights come on for a second, then die. Double WTF?
And according to Dell, that means the motherboard is FUBAR. And it's not worth the money to replace it, I know...I've had to check that before when my monitor went kaput. Hmm...maybe I can swap the hard drive into the other laptop long enough to put critical files online (since the other lappy will get online, but not connect to the other compytron)