Vostro 3500 does not illuminate

Hi all

When I press the power button on my Vostro 3500, button walk / stop and pause/play flash button, but it does not.  The power button and the play/pause button flashes every 5 seconds.

I tried to delete / re-seats of the battery and the ram without success.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

Scott

Hello swholmes,

I have a small question for you: did you tell you - assemble the laptop by chance?

I had this same problem and I say-assembled for the cleaning of the exhaust fan (the laptop was overheating)

The problem was that I had removed the CPU, and when I put back it, I forgot to turn the screw that holds the processor in the "locked" position When I did this thing, the problem was solved!

I hope that helps you as it solved my problem!

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