Charles thank you very much indeed to you and your colleagues here. The site has been an enormous help. I m extremely grateful.
Charles, yes it does, I understand. I've re-fitted the battery and have been able to start up the laptop without any problem, everything seems...
Thanks Charles Just out of curiousity, how does removing the battery allow a restart if it isn't faulty? In words of one syllable please :)
I have been able to do a system restore from safe mode, things seem to be fine. I haven't yet re-fitted the battery, I was thinking that the...
Followed your latest instruction, went immediately to screen apologising for inconvenience. I chose safe mode and low and behold we have lift off!...
Safe mode with command prompt results in same screen as safe mode multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS\system 32\DRIVERS\compbatt.sys...
I really appreciate the attempts to help Laptop is MSI M662 AVG anti virus/anti spyware & Zonealarm installed Data isn't so important...
noah, i am unable to access the advanced options via f8. If press f8 continually at start up nothing happens. When I stop attempting to use f8...
Hi again Pete, I have tried to download and run both memory utilities you suggested from a CD RW. Neither programmes activate when I try to start...
Pete the recovery disk I have is one supplied by the manufacturer and not an XP operating system. I have put it into the drive before starting up...
Pete I have left the laptop for over 30 minutes after choosing safe mode, nothing happens. Is it relevant that after powering up, then the...
Hi again charles. I am unable to get as far as being able to use Start > run > type cmd > ok The sequence of events is power on...
Hello charles, thanks for replying. My original post might not have been clear enough. I am unable to start in safe mode. If I select safe mode...
Hello all I am a novice so please have patience. My laptop will not start up, I power it up, I see a black screen with f3... in top left hand...
Bill - I updated as you suggested and couldn't connect to the network. The network was detected, I entered the security info but connection didn't...
mflynn - thanks for your reply. I did everything you suggested and still got the dreaded RegDBCreateKeyEX failed message when trying to install...
The computer is at home and used for the family. I wonder if someone has inadvertently altered a setting to deny access to the Aministrator...
I am able to logon as Administrator in safe mode but get an immediate "1607" message when trying to install the adapter from the cd. I am...
Did reboot and got same message
Tried to logon in safe mode as Administrator and got Unable to log you on because of an account restriction
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