A friend gave me a laptop to look at. About 90% of the time when you hit the power button the power led will come on and the fans will start up but nothing else happens. No beeps, no BIOS messages, ...
It sounds like a classic case of corrupted print spool in Win9x.<BR><BR>Disable write behind caching in the system control panel File system properties as the first thing.<BR><BR>The second thing you ...