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August 5th, 2024 21:36
Precision 5550
Friend gave me a Precision 5550 he bought that had Bios issues. First few days it worked fine. I installed some programs, browsers like Brave & Opera. I installed & ran cleaner once. Then I hooked it up to a HD bay I have to move files over from my desktop but it froze at some point. The laptop went into sleep & the bay turned off bevause it wasn't in use long enough. Since then I've only gotten the laptop to come on fully 3 or 4 times over several days. It freezes after a few minutes every time. I also used a restore point one of the apps had set. I was occasionally getting a fail to start where the laptop would go through a series of colors on the screen before it went black. Now it will show the Dell logo, but no circle showing it's booting & then it goes black. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Fletch3r
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August 14th, 2024 21:57
Edit/Additional information - I now know the laptop is running the LCD self test when it flashes the colors. I believe an issue is that it overheats & I got the most use out of it yesterday by holding it up or propping it on something to keep it off amy surface. It's still ended up freezing. It's back to coming on and showing the Dell symbol but no loading & then just going to black. Then the keyboard will light up a few times like it's trying to start but the screen stays black until I hold power to shut it down.