easysurfer
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Not the prettiest thing, but effective.
Ah, when the cover is back on, nobody will see it.
It's just like people wearing worn-out underwear, because nobody else would know.![]()
I'll slap a bit of gaffer tape on the opening and will be better than new.
https://youtu.be/XLDHI8_My-s
Turn sound down. Shows disassembly and cleaning motherboard. Reseat the processor. Just one more idea.
My theory now wonders if the issue is a [-]racket[/-] feature from Dell requiring use of price inflated Dell OEM batteries and power adapters to work properly. I read somewhere that Dell has their batteries chipped.
I own both a non-OEM battery and adapter...
If Dell pulled this shenanigan, I would think the laptop would consistently fail to boot.
It sounds like an intermittent hardware problem. Does the laptop ever crash or freeze up once it is up and running? Or does it run fine once it's up, and only has the problem while booting?
Does it have the latest Dell BIOS?
Customer reports shared on social media platforms, including Dell's official community website [1, 2] and Reddit [1, 2], warn that the latest BIOS version (version 1.14.3 for Latitude laptops, 2.8.0 for Inspiron, and 1.0.18 for Aurora R8) will cause booting issues.
Although the impacted systems will power up, users say peripheral lights and displays will not turn on. When they boot up, they'll go straight to a blue screen and shut down again.
"After upgrading my 5320's BIOS to the new 1.14.3 version today, the laptop will not boot. When pressing the power button, the light on the button will show for around 10 seconds and then turn off again," an affected customer said.
"Occasionally the whole keyboard lights up but the laptop will shutdown shortly after, but sometimes the laptop will turn on and display a 'Time-of-day not set - please run SETUP program' error, and upon pressing 'Continue,' the laptop will then shutdown again. A few times it has booted but then shown a blue screen for a while before shutting down."
So, the model Dell Latitude E5430 was made when? The first came out in August 2011. Man, that's generations ago. And the BIOS version is important when searching. With an old Dell I never had a problem using the latest available BIOS, which would still leave the machine years out of date. But you might get support for some device that was added to the machine before re-sale.
Someone can find just about anything to prove that a change should not be made. But in the vast number of BIOS upgrades, it goes well.
There's no doubt that you have an unusual problem with the used computer. I would check all the hardware, like HD, chip, memory, etc. to see exactly what is in the box. It's easy for a reseller to futz up a machine, then offload it with bad drive, or memory pull from another bad machine. "I think it's good." It booted once...
I hope your fastboot change does it good.
So, the model Dell Latitude E5430 was made when? The first came out in August 2011. Man, that's generations ago. And the BIOS version is important when searching. With an old Dell I never had a problem using the latest available BIOS, which would still leave the machine years out of date. But you might get support for some device that was added to the machine before re-sale.
Someone can find just about anything to prove that a change should not be made. But in the vast number of BIOS upgrades, it goes well.
There's no doubt that you have an unusual problem with the used computer. I would check all the hardware, like HD, chip, memory, etc. to see exactly what is in the box. It's easy for a reseller to futz up a machine, then offload it with bad drive, or memory pull from another bad machine. "I think it's good." It booted once...
I hope your fastboot change does it good.
You tap F12 a few times after POST.
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/...ablet-or-servers#built-in-offline-diagnostics
[FONT="]#66 When does this incompetence end? Do they test anything before they ship it out?[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Google: Microsoft fired all of their QA people[/FONT]
[FONT="]True story! Crazy to do that.
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[FONT="]Did Dell? Do not know but they may not test and test as needed but just enough before the bean counters intervene.[/FONT]