Date: 04/03/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: no keywords

So I got a laptop from my brother who got it from a friend that was going to toss it because it's not working.

Well, I charged it up and turned it on, and the light comes on and it sounds like it's booting up but nothing shows up on the screen. :\ nothing, total blackness.

It's a Compaq Presario 1685. Anything have a clue as to what could be wrong with it? Or around how much it *might* cost to be fixed?


It had some "boot disk" ie: floppy with boot disk written on it. Nothing happens with it in the computer though. I'm not sure whats on it, and I don't trust putting it in my computer, hah... so yea. I'm going to get a cd-rw tomorrow and burn a new boot disk and see if it just doesn't have anything installed on it.

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