Greetings All.. I have a Dell c640 that I purchased at a Flea Market for $250, When I bought this machine it did not have a power supply with it.. There was just enough charge in the battery at the time it would get halfway through post then would power off. Okay I thought, all looks good.. I'll just grab a POwer Supply off eBay for it. After waiting for like a month and a half for the Power supply to arive, I was happy when it did and figured I would have a fairly decent notebook that my kid could use for school and if it got ripped off, it wouldn't hurt all that bad. Anyways, I charged up the battery on this, powered up and got the dreaded grey screen.. Needless to say I was choked, I have been searching different forums, over the months have disassembled the machine a couple times trying the paperclip method, I have tried 3&6, 5&7, and probebly every other combination known to man...everytime the notebook powers off as soon as I short the chip. I really don't want to have to spend yet another 100 dollars on this thing to have it unlocked online, What I thought would be a decent cheap system for my Kid to use for school has turned into something almost annoying as a pimple on the ***. I'm at the end of my rope with this thing.. do I fire it out the window and cut the loss or can someone help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Dell C640
ST - #34G5621-595B
ESC - 6798326687