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I've got a Latitude E5500 That has been apparently been sitting in a box for a few years.
Lady gave it to me, said it would never boot up. As I suspected, the bios battery was dead. I yoinked it out and it started right up. I told her I would get her another battery and sort out some other stuff on the computer.
I booted it in safe mode, and left it running for a bit. When I came back, it was dead. Turned it back on and this time it died shortly after start up.
There is a blinking combo that in the user manual says it means the processor is dead. Okay fine, an extra $20, no worries. So I swapped the old intel core 2 duo for another and I got the same error combo. I then put the old IC2D in to a laptop I know works, that booted fine.
What happened to the Lattitude? Could the motherboard be dead?
Its possible. Your guess is good as ours – Ramhound – 2014-10-14T23:58:08.037