Dell laptop will not turn on (at first).

I went to Dell and saw that my laptop is compatible with Windows 10. It's a Dell Inspiron 3737. I thought I fixed my issue when I disabled "fast startup" in power settings. It occurs to me that some of my problems were fixed (excessive battery draining).

If I shut the lid and leave it, the next day the laptop won't turn on. I have to hold the power button down until I see the power LED flash and then I can press the button again to turn on the laptop.

Updated the BIOS from A01 to A08, let's see what happens.

I've just updated my Dell 7537 laptop. Before I did so, I noted from the Dell forum it is vital to use the latest BIOS update which supports Windows 10.

It seems to be fixed. I'm going to give it a couple days. I'll probably do a clean install and dual boot 7 and 10.

Nope. Still acting weird.

HarryD said:

Nope. Still acting weird.

When you say that it's acting weird, do you just mean the sleep function when you close the lid? Or is there other weirdness?

Personally, I have never had much luck with Windows machines using sleep mode, I just shut them down every time.

On the other hand my Mac sleeps and starts up nice.

Anyway, I've upgraded a bunch of pretty old machines to Windows 10. I've learned that for older machines there are many fewer problems if you start with the 32 bit version of 7/8 and install the 32 bit version of 10, even if the 64 bit version of 7/8 runs fine.

Also, I always make sure that 7/8 is validated, then do an upgrade to 10 and check the validation. Once 10 is validated I do a fresh install of 10. Seems to work best this way.

I would shut the lid of the laptop and leave it alone, it could be plugged in or unplugged from the wall. I open the lid and no matter what button I press, the laptop/display wouldn't turn on (wake). The power LED and wireless LED would be on but the display never turns on. I have to hold the power button down for about ten seconds, then press it again.

The laptop came with Windows 8.1 64 bit, and I installed Windows 7 64 bit soon after. All of them were clean installs, including 10.

I wanted the 64 bit version because I have 8GB of memory installed.

Try disabling the Intel Management Interface in device manager.
If that fixes it you may have success with older drivers.
I had sleep/shutdown problems and disabling IME fixed it, no drivers fixed it so I am running with it disabled.

I shut the lid twice yesterday with the laptop plugged in and before opening it I noticed that both LED's were off. I opened it and it awoke as it's suppose to. I'm going to try it again this time with the laptop unplugged.

I haven't disabled anything yet.

After some messing around I found out that when I shut the lid the LED's will turn off and the power LED will slowly flash.
This is the way it should work.

Sometimes when I shut the lid the LED's stay on. Last night I clicked shut down, the display went black but both LED's were still on. I woke this morning to a dead battery.

The battery indicator also wasn't showing if it was charging until I unplugged the power input and plugged it back in.

I'll be fixing this issue today by doing a clean install of Windows 7.