HI
I have my Dell Inspiron N5010 with service TAG: 9DTFZG1 for the past 3 year. I was verry happy with it till few days ago when first it shut down suddenly and then started beeping 8 times but after taking off the battery and puting it back the laptop was starting normaly. That exercise manage to start the laptop few times till it stopt at all and only 8 beeps you could hear.During the few times i could use the laptop i managed to preform few tests - first presing Ctrl+D - the screen showed all the colors normaly
second test presing F12 during startup end choose diagnostic mode from the menu - after 1h preforming diagnostics the system showed no system errors.
After i was left with laptop preforming 8 beeps sound only i attached external monitor to the laptop - on the second monitor i coud see all the grafics but noting on the LCD screen of the laptop. I yet again preformed diagnostic from F 12 menu during start - the system showed no errors but some how after restart the monitor of the laptop was back and runing. I told that it must be a driver problem so i updated the grafics drivers with the latest avalable but that only made the problem worse if external monitor was attached the laptop was starting normali the grafics was ok till 5 min later when they was going funy and not long after the system was shuting down.
All that made me uninstall the grafics drivers - now the system is working fine - starts normaly and there is no trace of the problems mentioned above but the problem is that the grafics looks like and old DOS game - VGA grafics.
Can you please geve me any solution or what is the cause of the problem.