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Ok, short back story: I've been debating upgrading the ram on my laptop, so Mombot and I were going to go ahead and do it today. She's done the same process five times in the past and nothing has gone wrong with any of the computers she's worked on.
So I power down the computer, a Dell Latitude D620, disconnect everything and we get ready to start. She takes out the battery pack, presses the power button twice to ground any leftover power, and gets ready to take the back off of the compartment that has my RAM cards in it but she can see she's going to need more than the 1 512 mb stick she has, as the 1 gb of RAM I have is comprised of 2 512 mb sticks. She can see this through the slats without having to take the back off, so we decide not to go ahead with the procedure, put the battery back in, and I reconnect the power cord and everything like I had it before and boot up.
Except right after I see the Dell boot up screen, I don't even get to the boot up for Windows. Instead, it spends the next few hours running a diagnostic test on the whole machine - the screen, the keyboard, the mike, the mouse, everything. This started at about 12:00 today, and it just finished a few minutes ago.
Booted up Windows as normal, all my stuff is still on my drive, everything is as I left it. The only thing I had to fix was date and time (it decided that right now was 3:06 AM on April 11th, 2006 - the day it was built before sending it out to me to go to college with).
I guess what I'm asking is what happened? Why did it do that? I've tried running a generic search on changing the battery, but all I got were how-tos and nothing about diagnostic checks. And if it helps, the last time I actually changed the battery was two years ago, and it was a dead battery. But after I had charged the new one and booted up, the laptop didn't do this diagnostic test thing.
So I power down the computer, a Dell Latitude D620, disconnect everything and we get ready to start. She takes out the battery pack, presses the power button twice to ground any leftover power, and gets ready to take the back off of the compartment that has my RAM cards in it but she can see she's going to need more than the 1 512 mb stick she has, as the 1 gb of RAM I have is comprised of 2 512 mb sticks. She can see this through the slats without having to take the back off, so we decide not to go ahead with the procedure, put the battery back in, and I reconnect the power cord and everything like I had it before and boot up.
Except right after I see the Dell boot up screen, I don't even get to the boot up for Windows. Instead, it spends the next few hours running a diagnostic test on the whole machine - the screen, the keyboard, the mike, the mouse, everything. This started at about 12:00 today, and it just finished a few minutes ago.
Booted up Windows as normal, all my stuff is still on my drive, everything is as I left it. The only thing I had to fix was date and time (it decided that right now was 3:06 AM on April 11th, 2006 - the day it was built before sending it out to me to go to college with).
I guess what I'm asking is what happened? Why did it do that? I've tried running a generic search on changing the battery, but all I got were how-tos and nothing about diagnostic checks. And if it helps, the last time I actually changed the battery was two years ago, and it was a dead battery. But after I had charged the new one and booted up, the laptop didn't do this diagnostic test thing.
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