Hi

When did you get the computer ?

Where did you get it from ?

Has it just started with this error ?

Denis

Hi,

A couple of questions

1) how full is your hard disk ? If they are full then windows is slow to start and possibly won't start.

2) Have you defraged disk recently ?

3) Are you running...

Glad to hear you have progessed. To get best answers I suggest you start a new post for this part. People who have already read your original question will not return, and therefore miss new...

Hi,

Have you plugged in an external monitor ? Then switched to it with correct function key ?

Have you tried contrast and bightness keys ? (Sometimes they are on side of screen)

Denis

Glad you hear you have solved the problem. Thanks for letting us know.

Denis

It is possible keyboard is damaged. Even a drop of water will cause all sorts of problems. at startup.

First remove power cable and battery.

If you look round edge of keyboard you should find a...

Hi,

Have you removed all the memory and tried to boot laptop ? If so what happens ?

Have you put old memory back in and rebooted ? What happens ?

Sounds to me as if new memory is either not...

It could be as simple as a stuck key, but if not, then unplug everything external before switching on. Also make sure there are no cd's or floppies in drives.

If that does not work then I would...

Whilst external monitor was plugged did you try the function switch that switches between screens ?

Also have you tried brightness/contrast switches ?

Denis

Hi

A few suggestions

1) Try booting without keyboard and see if you get same results.


2) Try booting without mouse

3) Check pins on keyboard plug are straight, then plug back in and...

Thanks for letting us know - I have seen it happen when tea, coffee are spilt into keyboard.

Denis

I have seen laptop keyboards do similar things, but I would also run a virus check, just to safe.

Denis

I think you have blown your motherboard.

Hi,

I would try booting from either a floppy disk or a CDROm and see what happens, with and without an external monitor.

Then come back with results and let us know please

Have you tried the recovery disk from Partition Magic, because when PM is installed and working the bootup is controlled by PM and therefore I suspect that the computer is trying boot up via PM.
...

No prob, good luck, ta for letting us know your progress.

Please let us know what happens and what was wrong.

try removing any other cards, like network cards, just leave minimum, could be a faulty card that is stopping it working.

I would take it to your local PC shop and have it checked. Don't use one of the big boys like PC W**** unless you bought it there and it is under warranty.

Sorry to say it, but sounds like motherboard

If you try booting from recovery disk and MS XP disk what happens ?

Hi,

Sorry to hear of your problems.

Some manufacturers write a marker to hard disk. By doing all the formating etc that have done I suspect that this marker, if it existed has gone. Therefore...

Hi Dennis

Next I would remove any peripherals you can like cdrom drive, pmcia cards, usb devices, etc

Then try rebooting

If that fails take out hard disk and try rebooting.

It is possible...

Hi

It sounds like a faulty power supply to me with internal battery now flat.

You need to get a voltmeter and check voltage at end of power lead that plugs into laptop.

Best of luck

Denis