Comments on: Laptop Repair

By: Raj

Raj — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:38:43 +0000

Geeks….My Laptop Inspiron 5160 does not start at all. If I plug in the power adapter, the power lights even don’t turn on. Some times if press Power button no of times, yellow light blinks for like 4 times but nothing happens.

Pls help!!

Thx

By: Raj

Raj — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:37:37 +0000

Geeks….My Laptop does not start at all. If I plug in the power adapter, the power lights even don’t turn on. Some times if press Power button no of times, yellow light blinks for like 4 times but nothing happens.

Pls help!!

Thx

By: San

San — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:21:31 +0000

Anyone have a pin diagram for the Battery Pack 6T473 for Inspiron 5160? My AC adapter is good, but due to the DCConnecter loose connection its not powering up. If I can directly charge the battery from the AC Adapter output will be nice. Hoping this will work atleast untill the data is backedup… Any help?

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:08:09 +0000

When I get a dell that doesn’t power up or display, I connect an external monitor in back and it fires up & displays. So… sometimes the ground in the dc jack won’t connect and the external monitor jack acts as a … um, replacement ground.

By: dissapointed owner

dissapointed owner — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:28:57 +0000

Hi – I have a Dell Inspirion 5160 laptop. The laptop screen is flickering. Sometime it will work well without any issue but soon the screen will start flckering. I have NVIDIA 64MB graphics card. Any idea what can be the cause of this issue?

By: bob borum

bob borum — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:21:13 +0000

I have a dell 5160 with trouble , it not power on , ot it displays no lights , the fan does not get power , new power adapter new battery

By: brent

brent — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:23:00 +0000

i’ve had alot of these problems and the one with the power on and off comes with the cpu over heating i removed the fan and the cpu came withit of course,so i separated it and put the cpu back in its place and tightend the cpu set screw and put some heatsink compound on the unit cleaned the fan and set fan back in place ,the system started with no problems

By: laura

laura — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:26:49 +0000

my ac jack doesn’t work on dell inspiron 5160. does anyone out there fix these computers?

By: Cochise

Cochise — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:39:22 +0000

I have a Inspirion 5160 that had an overheating problem. So I took it all apart (per documentation) and cleaned out the fan and filter and associated area. Put it all back together (rather easy task), booted up and NOTHING.
The fan came on, the display flickered, then the fan went silent after about a minute, then nothing except the CPU light was ON. I then repeated the disassembly to make sure I connected everything, reassembled and rebooted on battery only. The only difference was the battery light momentarily came on, otherwise all the same as before.
I am aware of the electrostatic issues so I was very careful, but perhaps that is the problem after all. A side issue: when I pulled out the fan and cooling assembly, I noticed that the Pin Grid Array separated from the holder not the heat sink. Is that normal? or is that potentially my new problem?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:35:48 +0000

I didn’t read -all- the comments so I don’t know if anyone else noticed this; but, the disassembly went too far and more parts were removed than were necessary. Certainly the screen does not have to be removed.

Removal of the keyboard and an aluminum plate under the keyboard exposes everything needed to then remove just the heatsink and fan assembly.

I’m a relatively inexperienced at laptop repair; but, I have done the heatsink and fan on two 5160’s, one just yesterday.