2012年6月5日星期二

Dell Inspiron 1501 battery

It's 5 years old and now won't boot up. It's a Dell Inspiron 1150 battery and I can get into the f2 , 12 and 8 menus but it just wont start up. It offers me a battery re-calibration too but whatever i do, for example, f8 and select last good configurtion that works it just wont get going.I usually use laptops like these for network device configuration tasks because of the serial port (assuming you have on on that model). They are extremely useful for stuff like that. Not to mention you can have them lying around and NO ONE will want it. :)


It's driving me nuts and your advice is greatly appreciated. We are a non-profit. Somebody gave us a DELL Inspiron 1200 battery (made around 2005) and they want a tax writeoff. I'm not sure we can actually 'use' it (it is below our minimum specs), so I don't want to agree to a tax writeoff. Given the specs and situation, what can we do with it?if it doesn't cost you anything to offer a tax deductable receipt go ahead and offer them one... for $10. That way they will get the hint that the device really wasn't worth anything. I would save it until I absolutely had no use for it however. If it had anything other than a celeron I would probably look for something to use it for but realistically would it even run Linux well?

Based on what you've said, I'm not sure if you've tried accessing Safe Mode from F8 however I suspect you've already tried that route. If you can't access Safe Mode then I suggest trying to repair the Windows installation or as a last resort restoring the system to factory settings.I had a friend give me an inspiron 1200 notebook that seemed to have a virus because it took forever to boot. I told him I could do a clean install of DELL Inspiron 1300 battery on it and it should fix it. I turned it on just long enough to put the disc in and restarted. Everything went fine until I started doing the updates. I noticed the battery indicator on the tool bar while I had the charger plugged in. The battery now is just about dead. Can someone tell me if I missed something or did this notebook just die on me? I hooked a meter to the plug and its putting out 19 volts. All help would be appreciated.

Repairing Windows can be done with the Recovery Console however for this you'll need a Windows XP CD. There many functions available with the Recovery Console however to keep things simple I'd suggest using just one command. So once you're in the Recovery Console, access the Windows installation and use the chkdsk /r command. This will look for problems and fix any it can.Without a Windows XP disk you will need to try the Dell Inspiron 1501 battery factory restore option (CTRL + F11 at the Dell logo). The restore option will erase the contents of the hard disk though, so if there are files you need on the laptop, you can access them beforehand by removing the hard disk and using it in a USB disk caddy with another computer.

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