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Name: compalaptop
Date: February 9, 2009 at 03:22:01 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 512
Product: Compaq / PRESARIO
Subcategory: General
Comment:

laptop was working yesterday
today tried turnig it on it wont work
took out battery tried just power
still didnt work
i can hear the fan going and then like the screen stays black
any ideas? never happened before.



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Name: XpUser4Real
Date: February 10, 2009 at 07:38:13 Pacific
Reply:

have you tried getting into safe mode or is there no screen whatsoever? Also some laptops have a small reset on the bottom which requires a paperclip to reset it.

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Response Number 2
Name: nnishp
Date: February 10, 2009 at 08:50:59 Pacific
Reply:

pull out the ram and reseat it and see if it helps


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