Hope someone may have the golden answer as i know this can mean several things. I get a black screen at boot up (turn on ) & just the fan going fast. I have probably damaged areas by now as the only cure i've found is by taking out battery & mains & trying over & over, sometimes 20 times for it to boot up normally..It shouldn't be O/S xp as it doesn't get that far ?. I have no O/S disks either or manufacture disks. Research so far points to corrupt bios, loose ram conn, cmos, registry?..F2 or F8,10 keys pressed at start up does zilch. Would removing cmos battery for 20mins help ?..Is there a FREE bios scan AND fix available ?..Registry fix ?.. I'm still leaning towards bios issues but i am far from being an expert . Being an old " icom ability 1300 A, intel celeron 350 " laptop, i've opened 2 access areas on the base but none reveal the cmos battery. Has a QCI-EF6 motherboard, phoenix bios Q3B81 vers. The everest scan has nothing under m/board chipset??.. Not game to turn off anymore which is a worry as most fixes need to reboot.
Any ideas are gladly received, thanx