I tried that too... It boots to dos properly with that disc, but only the A: drive is available for use. (which is actually the DVD drive rather than the floppy drive). I can run FDISK and FORMAT...

The battery is fine, I gave it the ol' tongue test - and used a voltmeter for good measure. Another student in my class is going to lend me his motherboard-test pci card, so hopefully I can rule out...

Oh sorry. Didn't mean to offend. From my experience hardware problems with laptops of this severity are usually 10x more complex to solve than with home PCs. It could be something as simple as the...

Just how noobie are you? Is the battery charged and connected properly and cleanly?

Sounds like what happened to my computer! Except I can make the monitor turn on by taking out the BIOS battery and putting it back in while the power is off. See if that works for you! (Except...

Hmmm unless its a capacitor or a pretty big resistor or the BIOS thats the problem, there is almost no chance of repair. Most modern motherboards are printed on 3-4 layers, so fixing something via...

Okay I'll start out with some brief specs of my computer.
Ram - 2x512mb = 1024mb
Cpu - Iintel pentium 3 - not too sure of the GHz but thats not important
Hardrive - 80Gb Dankstar (??) - not too...