dell cpia will not boot

foschia · 02-16-2006, 09:40 PM

i have a dell cpia running windows 2k one day i had turned on my laptop and as soon as it finishes going through the bios it just turns off. i tryed going into bios to change settings and that doesnt work and also tryed a knoppix bootable cd also did not work. i timed it and the bios does not boot in the same time every time so i dont think that it could be something where it turns off after 5 sec. if you could please help me out thank you

LaptopExtreme · 02-16-2006, 10:15 PM

It could be the power supply or power brick, and it can also be caused due to overheat.

02-16-2006, 09:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
foschia Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: the universe Posts: 45	dell cpia will not boot i have a dell cpia running windows 2k one day i had turned on my laptop and as soon as it finishes going through the bios it just turns off. i tryed going into bios to change settings and that doesnt work and also tryed a knoppix bootable cd also did not work. i timed it and the bios does not boot in the same time every time so i dont think that it could be something where it turns off after 5 sec. if you could please help me out thank you __________________ sweet desktop specs P4 3.0 HT 2 gb ram 160gb hdd cd-dvd burner 256mb graphics card windows xp pro sp2

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02-16-2006, 10:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
LaptopExtreme VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 880	It could be the power supply or power brick, and it can also be caused due to overheat.