Dell Precision T3500 will not start
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I have a problem with My Dell precision T3500 that will not start . From the diagnostic lights it is a PB12 fault , system board component . The night before , I switched the computer off and a fan was loud but I checked temps and everything seemed ok . I tried clearing the BIOS but it did not solve the problem . Checked the GPU on another machine and was told it was working . All peripherals disconnected . Can anyone render advice please ?
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@snowfun87 said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
Can anyone render advice please ?
Wash it in clean filtered water and immediately dry it off.
Reseat the CPU, RAM, and GPU (if using a discrete graphics card).Other than that... Welcome to the forum? This is more of a place to complain about problems in the computing world, though, so you might get better advice from sites more suited to fixing things. For example, Dell's warranty and repair site.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
Wash it in clean filtered water and immediately dry it off.
In the microwave?
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@anotherusername said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
Wash it in clean filtered water and immediately dry it off.
In the microwave?
Ooh! I like that idea, charge and dry it at the same time!
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@anotherusername said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
Wash it in clean filtered water and immediately dry it off.
In the microwave?
An exsiccator might also work. Find a reasonably large airtight glass enclosure you can open, put some dry silica and a bowl of concentrated sulfuric acid on the bottom. Then put the laptop above the bowl (needless to say it shouldn't touch the bowl) and evacuate the glass enclosure.
Wait for one day and then receive your completely dry laptop.
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@rhywden said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
needless to say it shouldn't touch the bowl
For those who don't do chemistry.... why?
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@anotherusername said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
Wash it in clean filtered water and immediately dry it off.
In the microwave?
It's what we call 'cold'. Three minutes on high should do the trick.
(Just a wee bit NSFW, by the way)
Salmon Days – 02:56
— win666ter2001
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@snowfun87 said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
I have a problem with My Dell precision T3500 that will not start . From the diagnostic lights it is a PB12 fault , system board component .
Based on my past experience with Dell, your options are:
(a) Try to buy a new motherboard from Dell (may not be possible, or will be quite expensive if available)
(2) Buy a replacement motherboard on Ebay. Cheaper, but . . . well . . . it's Ebay.
(III) Take the computer to a repair shop (which is essentially the same as the options listed above, you're just paying someone else to do it)
(d) Buy a new computer.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@anotherusername said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
Wash it in clean filtered water and immediately dry it off.
In the microwave?
Ooh! I like that idea, charge and dry it at the same time!
For real, though, I'm trying to figure out whether "wash it" was supposed to be a serious answer.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@rhywden said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
needless to say it shouldn't touch the bowl
For those who don't do chemistry.... why?
Because of the acid.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
For those who don't do chemistry.... why?
Because sulfuric acid is really nasty stuff. It's not good for metal or metal-like components, and it's not good on anything that might end up touching your skin, because it does this to organic matter:
Sugar Snake: Sulfuric Acid and Sugar – 01:12
— ThirstForScience
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@anotherusername said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@anotherusername said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
Wash it in clean filtered water and immediately dry it off.
In the microwave?
Ooh! I like that idea, charge and dry it at the same time!
For real, though, I'm trying to figure out whether "wash it" was supposed to be a serious answer.
Hopefully not. You can wash some electronics though, you just have to use demineralised water. I worked for an electronics manufacturer that used to wash hundreds of boards a week in an enormous ultrasonic bath filled with low-ion water and just a touch of a special mix of detergents approved for washing electronics.
Of course if it isn't designed to be washed and not all the components are fully sealed, or the water is impure, or the assembly is powered all bets are off.
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@anotherusername said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
@rhywden said in Dell Precision T3500 will not start:
needless to say it shouldn't touch the bowl
For those who don't do chemistry.... why?
Because of the acid.
Oh. I was looking too deep I suppose...