Whenever I turn it on all I get is a blank white screen and a beeping noise? Any computer heads on here that can help me?
What model of Dell Laptop and how old is it? It sounds like your system board is fried or your graphics card is shot. What it probably is, your graphics card (I'm assuming nVidia) which is attached to the motherboard lost connection to the system. In layman's terms, the graphics card overheats over and over again, and eventually the solder points that attach the card to the board become brittle from melting and hardening over and over again. Here are a few articles: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-10020782-33.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/149055/dell_takes_heat_for_faulty_nvidia_chips.html I've seen 10-15 laptops from family and friends with these problems over the past 3-4 years. Unfortunately if it is out of warranty you're SOL. There are some people on eBay that repair these sorts of things, with the cost usually about $100... but your mileage may vary. I had an XPS 1330 repaired and it only worked for about a month before it happened again. Basically all the repair guys do is use a heat gun to warm up and re-solder the connections.
This is almost like what our IBM PCjr did when we tried to turn it on just for fun in like '95, just started beeping. I think for even the inital BIOS screen to not work you've got a dead unit.
Correct. If it was the memory or hard drive you'd at least get a boot screen, and those are easily diagnose-able and fixable problems. The fact that it is a white screen leads me to believe with about 95% certainty that it is the system board. Unfortunately, with laptops everything is soldered directly on the to the system board so to repair it, you have to replace the entire motherboard... and generally speaking it is easier and cheaper to just buy a new laptop at that point. You can however part out the laptop on eBay to help offset some of the costs. For example. Usually most laptops, even those 3-4 years old can be parted out for $100-150 or more. The screen and motherboard being the most valuable parts of course.
