A fault is likely detected like bad temp reading or fan as Mike suggested or really anything. What happens when you remove the memory does the laptop even compute a failure and give memory errors? I dealt with a Dell failure yesterday from a tensioned arm that holds the a chipset heatsink down had pulled the soldered hook from the motherboard. This BIOS was kind enough to tell me no chipset heatsink detected but not all will tell you the fault. Have you opened it up? Is there crap covering the CPU fan? Does the fan engage? Most will turn on for a second as a test even if not needed. Most of the time I find this stuff is just mixing and matching parts to determine what is wrong, since its a laptop this is more difficult due to propitiatory parts and compact assembly. Good luck
Matthias Johnson
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