August 15, 2003, 16:21
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Laptop help, anyone?
My cousin gave me his old 97' laptop to me. It's Dell Latitude XPi with a 166 processor, but I hardly think I'll need anything else for typing in lectures, and stuff. So I was really really happy for the fact that he let me take it.
He apparently didn't use it for some two years. In any case, he pulls it out of his closet, and we try to turn it on... nothing happens. The only things to work are the annoying power and charging LEDs. 
I've tried again, and again, to boot it, and it actually worked for some time, but there were lapses in the work of the keyboards and mouse, i.e., usually, they didn't work.
I'll be very grateful if someone would help me. thanks in advance.
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August 15, 2003, 16:27
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I used to have the same model (swapped it for a 19' monitor, now I've got a 120mHz laptop!)
Did you get any diagnostic software with it?
The mouse and keyboard probs MAY be the screen not updating
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August 15, 2003, 16:30
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Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. The only thing currently working is the battery charge LED. 
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August 15, 2003, 17:07
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August 15, 2003, 17:08
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The LED is only thing working? When you push the power on, nothing happens? Does it make ANY sounds at all?
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August 15, 2003, 17:09
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Originally posted by Azazel
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Does the HD (ie the LED) try to boot when you switch it on?
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August 15, 2003, 17:17
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no.
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August 15, 2003, 17:19
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I don't like being defeatist, but I think its ****ed, sorry!
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August 15, 2003, 17:20
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You hear no sounds at all? Hmmh.. Can you try it with another battery? Wait you can hook it straight to the .. thing where electricity comes.. Sounds pretty bad.
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August 15, 2003, 17:22
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I am sort of suspecting ( hoping) for it to be the battery, after all, it lied in a closet for two years!
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August 15, 2003, 17:27
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When I was in school my lap top was a pencil and a sheet of paper... never had a problem... 
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August 15, 2003, 17:28
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That means you gotta charge the battery
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August 15, 2003, 17:28
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it's power up off the mains anyway Az, just to make sure take the battery out and try to run it from the mains
PLEASE PLEASE tell me you've tried to run it off the mains first (ie before posting here) ? ;O)
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August 15, 2003, 17:34
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the battery was charged for an hour or so.
what do you mean by "Powering off the mains"? I am a laptop virgin. 
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August 15, 2003, 17:40
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Take the battery out of the laptop and plug the laptop into the power supply at the wall. Old laptop battries are usually the first things to go
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August 15, 2003, 17:46
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It seems that the battery is not the culprit.
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August 15, 2003, 17:54
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If it won't work when you plug it ito the wall, then I fear the worst
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August 15, 2003, 18:06
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who says it won't work? the green LED is still working.
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August 15, 2003, 18:09
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That just means power is getting to the computer, any other signs of life from the patient? ;O)
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August 15, 2003, 18:13
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it sometimes does a strange clicking sound just when I turn it on. but not always.
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August 15, 2003, 18:17
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the clicking isn't coming from the floppy drive is it? if it is remove the floppy
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August 15, 2003, 18:43
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Try to move the screen back and forth. On a friend's laptop, the screen won't display anything if it's in the right inclination with the rest of the computer.
Is there any sound from your laptop ? At least the fan ? If not, I fear the worst.
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August 16, 2003, 04:01
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Oh, and btw, THERE IS NO FAN.
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August 16, 2003, 04:26
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There is no fan in your laptop  ?
How does your CPU expect to cool down then ?
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August 16, 2003, 04:28
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That's a great question.
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August 16, 2003, 08:23
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If you pay me, say, 15 USD I'll get it off your hands.
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August 16, 2003, 09:12
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Originally posted by Spiffor
There is no fan in your laptop ?
How does your CPU expect to cool down then ?
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It's fairly old, so maybe the processor doesn't get hot enough for it to need one. My 486 laptop doesn't have a fan, for example, and works fine.
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August 16, 2003, 09:40
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my p120 doesn't have one either
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August 16, 2003, 10:06
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It's currently on, but it says something is configured wrong. Since I took it apart and put it back together again, this is a very strong possibility that this is, indeed true. 
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August 16, 2003, 10:10
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the plot thickens. The onboard Win98 doesn't like the keyboard and ball ( mouse). I don't think this poor soul was designed to carry Win 98 anyway, but that's just my opinion.
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