20 Most Recent Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 Netbook Questions & Answers

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MY DELL MINI 910 ERROR 08673

Jason Hunter,Unfortunately, you would need to replace the motherboard. There is no specific part number for the plastic clip. You can contact the Dell Spare Parts Department at 1-877-717-3355 or visite the website link below.Dell Spare Parts DepartmentThank You,Dell-Jesse LDell Social Media and Communiites

soldbyajt,It sounds as though the video card has gone bad in your system. There are a couple of things to try to eliminate the lcd. If the LCD on the system shows no display or has other problems, here are some basic steps to take:

1. If the LCD is not displaying any video, connect an external monitor to eliminate a no-POST problem. A good image on the external monitor eliminates a video card problem or a POST problem.
2. Connect an external monitor when possible for all LCD-related problems to help eliminate a possible software or video card problem.
3. If the LCD has lines on the screen, check the system during POST as well as system setup to determine if the lines are present in all modes of operation. If you cannot get any video by connecting an external monitor then your motherboard will need to be replaced. The reason for the motherboard replacement is because your video card is soldered onto the motherboard.Thank You,Dell-Jesse LDell Social Media and Communities

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Yes it will turn on with a dead battery if the power cord is good. You issue is probably the Power Cord or the DC Power Jack which is where the power cord plugs into the computer.

When you plug in the power cord is there any lights whatsoever on the laptop, where the plug goes in or on the AC Adapter of the power cord? When you press the power button do you hear fans running, hard drive spinning, lights on the computer, hear any beeps or lights constantly blinking, hear the DvD/CD drive click and the light on the drawer of the DvD/CD turn on for a second or two? If so the laptop is trying to boot or may have booted, but the screen is not showing for some reason. Beep tones and blinking lights tells the technicians what is going on with the laptop and why it is not booting. Most times it's a motherboard issue when you hear beeps or blinking lights continuous. Most times the problem is with the memory or Video Card. Count the Blinking Lights or Beeps and take note of their pattern (1 Long or 1 Long followed by 2 Short). Maybe your power cord is bad if you don't get anything to happen whatsoever when you press the power button. And if that's true maybe you was operating off the battery the last time you had it on and since the power cord is bad, it was not charging the battery so the battery is drained and the power cord is bad. Maybe you have a Static Charge Buildup. Remove the Power Cord, Remove the Battery, then Press and Hold the power button for 30 seconds. After 30 seconds plug the power cord back in (leave the battery out) and hit the power button to see if it boots. If it does, you can put the battery back in and let it charge.

Maybe your DC Power Jack which is where the power cord plugs into the computer is bad. Take an ink pen and push the tip inside the jack and see if the little pin wiggles, if so the jack is bad. You'll have to take the laptop apart to fix it. Most times it is soldered onto the motherboard, so you will have to desolder the old and solder a new one.

Maybe your memory is bad or the memory slot is bad.

Remove the Power Cord, Remove the battery, Remove the cover that houses the memory on the bottom of the laptop then remove one of the memory chips. Set the chip aside then try rebooting the computer. If it boots, then you know the memory chip you set aside is bad so mark an x on it with an ink pen. If it fails to boot then move the chip to the next memory slot and try rebooting. If it fails take the chip out and set it aside, then put the other chip in and try booting it in both slots. If it boots, just to verify that the chip set aside is bad, mark an x on it and put it into the open memory chip slot and try booting.

Take the battery out and see if it turnd on.

Do a system restore and bring computer back in time before this happened.

Probably the DC Power Jack which is where the power cord plugs into the computer. Take a ink pen and stick the tip in where the power cord goes to see if it wiggles. If so, that's your problem.

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Obviously, windows is already corrupted since its not booting up to windows. If you pressed F2 it should take your the the BIOS setup screen where you can configure the configure. F12 should take you to boot options screen where you can select devices your computer will boot up. If nothing happens when you press the keyboard keys then definitely there is something wrong with the keyboard also.
We have to problems here, its either the motherboard that is failing that is why the computer is not advancing to the next screen and or the keyboard that is not responding already.
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I bought my battery from richbattery http://www.richbattery.com/New-Laptop-Battery-for-Dell-INSPIRON-MINI-1012-2600mah-3-Cell_p_183163.html and it was good deal and half the price from manufacturer

Have you tried to uninstall then reinstall the driver from the device manager manually? Check the dell website for update drivers and patches. Maybe even a BIOS revision. There could be a problem with the hardware. What OS are you using?

Larry provides great answer up there ^^^ which is better down here. Larry Ng Jun 23, 2022 NO PC told (dell has 10000 models) no OS told, windows what"? no drive told. my wild wild guess is the boot drive is locked. and you are attempting and ******* act. to it. like deleting key parts of a running OS (windows) (like deleted tires on rims of 85mph moving car, fails) no real goal told, but the nebular "install HDD" one can add a 2nd drive easy or any of 1000s of external HDD models or external or internal, SSD or even a thumb drive. (vast) (just 2 steps in fact) but the boot drive , change out is far far far more complex. and you never not told that. you want to mess with the C: drive? now let me guess the real goal (sad I must) the OS drive windows is failing ( common) and some lil' bird told you it needs a new boot drive, and then fail to say so here. okay I will bite. 1: buy a new SSD (hdd fail and are slow) 2: buy a new OS, from MS. or get free w10. (ask how) 3: then put in new SSD, 4: run the w10 installer media (it is free) 5: load w10 to the SSD fresh 6: answer the silly 30 questions it asks. 7: and click activate. (buy it) ..

to what, no PC told no OS told windows locked you out BIOS admin, or HDD locked or power on locked out?<< all bios. or bitlocker locked out or any of its 100 clones

can;t log in now or what? what does change mean, lost it and now can not get in or means just want to change it , logged in. NO PC told and NO OS told or if bios admin or windows admin. bios or windows. both are hacking./ if lost. so google the cure.

so PC runs perfect right , just email bad. right? your browser can visit many websites ok? yes /no? if yes, good , if no, wifi is dead. fix WIFI forget email now. so can you login at life.com or not. live is both email and more even the cloud and the STORE. if only live fails ask MS to fix it. live is them, them only

push the physical cd drive try button marked EJECT the PC must be running, or use the paper clip hole trick. (if PC is dead or tray jammed) google that. clip trick the dell manuals covers this

add one noun to what. vast things have it, name one, please.