Hello all -
I'm helping someone out with their n7110. The computer started being unable to boot this morning. It goes to the Dell logo where the status bar fills up and then it reboots again.
There is no beep code.
I tried unplugging, removing the battery, holding down the power button for 30 seconds, plugging in the AC adapter and waiting, and then booting with the battery out. Same result.
I tried removing the RAM and booting. Got the 2 beep codes for the missing RAM, but otherwise got the same result. Reseated the RAM and tried booting again with the same result.
There is nothing odd about the status lights on the bottom left: power on and HD flashes.
The 3 lights on the top right buttons do this before it reboots (1 is leftmost, 2 is middle, 3 is the right button):
1-2-3-2-1-123 (all on) and then the computer reboots. Anyone know if this means anything?
I tried booting with the D key to get the display test and that's fine. I booted into the diagnostics and all of those pass.
Any ideas on what's going on? I have to wonder about the motherboard, but I wanted to make sure there isn't anything else to try before declaring this thing dead.
Thanks!
-- N