Laptop will not power up

[cwestgate2003@yahoo.com]

I was checking e-mail and my screen locked up. I powered
the laptop down and when I went to power back up the
screen is black and the laptop will not respond the laptop
is windows xp and the harddrive is 75% free. Can anyone
help?

[Alex Nichol]

wrote:

> was checking e-mail and my screen locked up. I powered
>the laptop down and when I went to power back up the
>screen is black and the laptop will not respond the laptop
>is windows xp and the harddrive is 75% free. Can anyone
>help?

Do you get anything at all on the screen? BIOS count; OEM friendly
screen? Can you hit the hotkey and get to BIOS setup? I just had a
laptop stop in its tracks like that - power on runs up the HD but
nothing else at all: major failure of hardware, and I'm pretty sure of
he CPU


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[R. McCarty]

To eliminate a "Shorted/Dead" battery, remove it and use the AC
adapter only. Then re-try power up.

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
>
> > was checking e-mail and my screen locked up. I powered
> >the laptop down and when I went to power back up the
> >screen is black and the laptop will not respond the laptop
> >is windows xp and the harddrive is 75% free. Can anyone
> >help?
>
> Do you get anything at all on the screen? BIOS count; OEM friendly
> screen? Can you hit the hotkey and get to BIOS setup? I just had a
> laptop stop in its tracks like that - power on runs up the HD but
> nothing else at all: major failure of hardware, and I'm pretty sure of
> he CPU
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)