Acadia opened this issue on Apr 19, 2006 · 79 posts
Acadia posted Thu, 20 April 2006 at 6:42 AM
Quote - Agree with Ockham -- it sounds more like a virus or worm, since your machine is "booting up." If it was the Mother Board, you would see technical jargon or nothing at all. Can you boot from a CD like the WinXP installation disk?
It's not booting up though. When I saw that blue screen with the tilting letters I panicked and pressed the off button.
Now all that happens when I press the "on/off" button is that I get 4 small lights (3 below the stop/pause/forward/rewind buttons", and the very left one on the hinge part where the lid connects) come on and then immediately go off. The monitor stays black, and after the 4 lights go out the only indication that there is any power at all is a small green light that flashes about once in 15 seconds that is also on the hinge part where the lid connects. It looks like a rectangle with a plus sign in the middle of it.
The Dell tech had me connect my desktop monitor to the laptop and press "Fn" and "F8" together, but nothing showed on the desktop monitor either....and I know that monitor is working because I'm using my Desktop to reply.
At the moment I'm not at all impressed with Dell computers. My laptop was very expensive because I made sure I had top of the line components including the best video card that was available at the time put in, and I don't consider 3 years to be "old" when I spend that kind of money.
I'm still waiting on my nephew to call and let me know if he has time to come look at it.
Signed..... "Frustrated in Canada", hehe
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others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi