>Does it refuse to boot from a floppy disk? ...a CD? Does it display anything on the screen at all? <
On startup, I can hear it spin the hard drive, the small LCD panel shows it checks the HD & CD, then the floppy tries to read. Screen is completely blank, not even a shadow of a display (like when the lamp has failed). It will repetedly try to read the floppy until I put a disk in, then it doesn't do anything else at all. Booting with a bootable DOS or Windows floppy still stops at the floppy read. I've tried booting with the floppy drive disconnected but it doesn't boot any further than when it is connected. There are no beeps, either, by the way.
>Can you access the BIOS setup at all? Did you try using all the usual keystrokes to access setup (F1, ESC, F10, INS, etc.)? Is there a Fn (usually light blue) key in the corner of the keyboard (most laptops have one). If so, try holding down the Fn key and the coresponding function key with the icon for a display (shaped like a TV screen). That usually turns on the internal/external/both monitor. Oh yeah, did you try jacking-in an external monitor to see if it would display anything? <
Can't access the BIOS at all. Toggling the external/internal monitor makes no difference. Nothing shows on an external monitor, it doesn't even appear to be receiving synch signals (monitor doesn't try to run). I'd have already written it off as a hardware failure, except that I had a Compaq which I thought damaged until I put in a Compaq restore disk.
--Wayne