G'day guys,

 

Yesterday evening I was on my laptop, watching youtube, surfing the web as they say. My laptop's battery was already pretty much dead, as in if I wasn't connected to the power cord after a few minutes the machine would turn off. It ran fine off the power supply. But Yesterday evening the power cord fell out, subsequently the laptop shut down after a few seconds. I put the power cord back in, and tried to turn it back on. Normally it would, but this time it failed to start. There were no signs of life what so ever.

 

I have tried leaving it a while, hoping that it would charge a bit and let me turn it on. I have also tried taking out the battery, and turning it on just with power cord. I have also tried taking out the battery and power cord, holding down the power button for 15 seconds ( even tried longer) then reconnecting the battery and power supply (this is what dell suggested). Yet again, no luck.

 

Today I called dell, the suggested I do the method above, and if that didn't work, bring it in to the service centre somewhere near the sydney olympic park.

 

Would any of you have any ideas what could be causing this, and also how I could fix it? I have had problems with it before regarding the hinges (which had to be replaced) but never seen this issue before.

By the way it is an Alienware M11xR1.

 

Hope you guys can help me, because I would really like not to have to spend money (it is out of warranty, by like 2 years). Also, since they no longer make the M11x, let alone the R1 version, parts are very likely to be expensive or non existant.

 

Thank you very much everyone,

 

Ollie Benton

Why not go here with this specific notebook issue?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/

Hi Ollie,

 

This might be an over simplification of the prob, but with the power connected and on, try a hard re-boot by holding the power On/Off switch down for a few seconds until it reboots.

 

Worth a try and worked for me once before.

 

Cheers

 

Lin