Date: 10/12/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Hey all, I need a little help for a problem I KNOW I should know the answer to, but can't seem to crack.

I was just given a Compaq laptop for work, as the person I'm doing the work for says I can fix anything with drive and a processor... but I can't seem to get the damn thing to work. When I boot it up, I get The COMPAQ screen -- the Windows XP screen with the loading bar... and then a completely black screen. Nothing I've tried in the last few hours has seemed to work: I've tried:

*Starting in Safe Mode: still nothing.
*Enabling VGA mode: still nothing.
*Booting from the Windows CD: nothing.
*Creating a boot disk on floppy -- twice: nothing.

It's not the monitor, because a)I still can get into the Options screens on boot, and b)I hooked the laptop to the desktop monitor, and it's the same black screen. It sounds like it's working in there, but I get nothing. No matter which options I try, it's the same thing. I need to get this thing working yesterday -- any suggestions? I'd be deeply in your debt.



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