Rockster and Pete thank you for the help...I turned the laptop on with no battery only AC plugged in...hit F2 and see the set up screen and within...
Ok so I've been having trouble keeping up with the new ideas on the laptop. But before I start considering options I thought it might be a good...
I'm not sure which of these to try first: Digging up the window's cd's as Pete posted...do surferdude's quick boot disk...find another...
ok noah will do.. my one worry now is if this questionable battery will hold a charge that long
Well the laptop just gives me the black screen with white cursor when I have the battey out and the charger in. I do have the windows stuff...
Pete... I logged into safe mode > administrator > and followed your instructions. I set it to run next time the comp starts up. I restarted and...
take ur time Pete, a million thanks for the help so far... I'll check in on it tomorrow morning.
thanks for the help matt... should i (could i?) run out and pick up a new battery? is it best to order from dell.com? thanks again Patrick
ok thanks again Pete...I'll back it up now. If you could leave me instructions when you get back I'll check the board later and see if we can get...
Ok so right now the battery is dead and I'm charging it (cant run the comp plugged into charger i just keep getting black screen with white cursor...
Comp refuses to boot normally...status bar always freezes.
Pete - yes when I check the documents of owner it seems it's there and that everything is as it would be (under safe mode anyway). Is there...
ok so now what am i looking to do in admin mode
ok trying safe mode (just plain safe mode, not the 2 other choices of w/ command prompt and w/ networking) and we are on...should i try...
ok Pete, seems like after a few times around the status bar, it freezes up.
ok...the status bar froze on the windows xp startup screen...reboot?
ok...which operating system to start: recovery console or xp home edition
Ahh I believe I've had a breakthrough David, but I do not want to touch anything until you give me the say so... I just tried to start my...
Surfer does it matter which one I choose on that link you provided?
Pete - I do not have even a status bar that shows on the screen. When I turn power on, I immediately get the black screen with white cursor. I...
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