black screen at startup

[bbasil]

hi can anyone help i have a dell inspiron 6000 that gos to a black screen after the dell screen and just sits there i can get at the bios and boot options IE hd,cd est tried to boot from windows cd all i get is the press any key then black and nothing i think it may be in some kind of sleep mode as when i told It to shut down i closed the lid be fore it turned off

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

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[bbasil]

hi as ive said its a dell and its runing windows xp have not installed any software or hardware and as i cant get it to run i cant help you with what version it is running soory

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Have you tried removing the battery and unplugging the laptop, and then trying to boot it again?

So when you try to boot off the CD, what exactly happens?

[bbasil]

sorry when i boot of windows cd i get press any fey to boot from cd then when i press a key i get setup is checking system and then black screen when i put the utilities cd in it go`s onto the full test screen and test the system this takes about 8hrs to do and it has passed all tests but it still will not start thanks

[bbasil]

hi have dad batt and unpluged for hour and still the same thanks

[sdumarali]

hi, everyone in computerhope "WISH U HAPPY NEW YEAR".

I have win xp pro sp2 installed on my machine , in the morning i switched on power supply there is no display i found please help me , and dont ask Q?s and the material in this site is so lenghty and i will not get any sequence to troubleshoot....please help me in a sequence that to troubleshoot..................

thanks in advance

[Ashutosh32]

Welcome to ComputerHope!

Happy New Year 2009!

Since you are posting your question in others thread, it will be considered as Hijacking Thread. Please start a new topic here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?board=1.0 .

And till your post is concerned, it is possible that the monitor power cable is causing the problem.

[bbasil]

sorry not sure what u mine by hijacking just trying to get some help the monitor works with the util cd