inspiron 1150 will just not boot mains or battery psu ok tried all the usual

[demented]

son was doing new install win xp pro. he had decided to have ac clean
fresh start and then reload what ever programs he req,d after new install
as he as backups on dics of what he uses. he as done this numerous times
b4 with no problems. however he left computer to get on with it and when
he returned there was only 8 mins to go displayed on screen. after afew
mins he noticed process bar was not operating. apparently he thought
computer had frozen and he said no response to keys or open cd. thus he
removed power. onreconnection power led on disc scanning for a while fan
on. disc ejected no problem. switched off the back pn again inserted disc
scanned for around 30 secs then just sits there doing nothing. since then
I tried for him and it the same on mains alone or battery alone or both
however still charges battery. no F12 F2 F8 F6 no ALT F11 no responses at
all only green power light on with both mains or battery supplying power
or both installed however still charges battery. initial turn on no
flashing cap lights etc just power led on. diconnected everything in turn
ram, hdd, cd, etc right down to motherboard checked for "dry joints"
nothing .reseated cpu checked everything i have seen on net to try.
afriend with same machine took my psu home worked on his daughters 1150 no
problem. no its not the psu jack on mine. only thing I think of is 40gb
hdd was somehow corrupted in my sons absence.I know it is an old machine
but having spent so much time being frustrated with this I wondered if
anyone had any other ideas and is there any way to confirm hdd. No have
asked friend to borrow his daughters 1150 for comparison but he is afraid
my machine may damage his parts or vice versa and he may have to fork out
for another machine for his daughter which is the situation I face and
money is tight after we were made redundant last year. any HELP!!!
appreciated b4 an early grave ensues for me not the 1150.

--

[Computer Nerd Kev]

Post by demented
son was doing new install win xp pro. he had decided to have ac clean
fresh start and then reload what ever programs he req,d after new install
as he as backups on dics of what he uses. he as done this numerous times
b4 with no problems. however he left computer to get on with it and when
he returned there was only 8 mins to go displayed on screen. after afew
mins he noticed process bar was not operating. apparently he thought
computer had frozen and he said no response to keys or open cd. thus he
removed power. onreconnection power led on disc scanning for a while fan
on. disc ejected no problem. switched off the back pn again inserted disc
scanned for around 30 secs then just sits there doing nothing. since then
I tried for him and it the same on mains alone or battery alone or both
however still charges battery. no F12 F2 F8 F6 no ALT F11 no responses at
all only green power light on with both mains or battery supplying power
or both installed however still charges battery. initial turn on no
flashing cap lights etc just power led on. diconnected everything in turn
ram, hdd, cd, etc right down to motherboard checked for "dry joints"
nothing .reseated cpu checked everything i have seen on net to try.
afriend with same machine took my psu home worked on his daughters 1150 no
problem. no its not the psu jack on mine. only thing I think of is 40gb
hdd was somehow corrupted in my sons absence.I know it is an old machine
but having spent so much time being frustrated with this I wondered if
anyone had any other ideas and is there any way to confirm hdd. No have
asked friend to borrow his daughters 1150 for comparison but he is afraid
my machine may damage his parts or vice versa and he may have to fork out
for another machine for his daughter which is the situation I face and
money is tight after we were made redundant last year. any HELP!!!
appreciated b4 an early grave ensues for me not the 1150.

Does the installation disc still boot, or is it the BIOS that is "scanning"
and the disc doesn't load. In that case it might just be that the CD drive
died during the installation. You could make a bootable USB memory stick,
or floppy disk if there's a floppy drive, to test that it isn't a BIOS
problem preventing the computer from booting anything.

Presumably trying F12, F2, F8, F6, and ALT-F11 was to get into the BIOS
settings menu at startup? Did any of these work before? If you can find
the manual online, it should state the correct key to press when you need
to enter the BIOS settings, "Delete" is another common one, also Escape,
but some are set to quite unusual keys or combinations.

If you can boot to the CD drive, and suspect that the HDD is the problem,
a bootable recovery CD like "Ultimate Boot CD" can be downloaded and will
present you with many tools to show things like the SMART data. This will
help identify if there has been a failure. You can also use a live Linux
distro (including the "parted" one on the Ultimate Boot CD) to access the
drive and allow you to test formatting and writing data to it.

The HDD could also be tested on another PC with a USB adapter (quite cheap
online), and there are adapters available that allow a laptop IDE HDD to be
connected inside a desktop PC.

[~misfit~]

Wall of text.... too hard to read.

D- Need to try harder.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

Post by demented
son was doing new install win xp pro. he had decided to have ac clean
fresh start and then reload what ever programs he req,d after new
install as he as backups on dics of what he uses. he as done this
numerous times b4 with no problems. however he left computer to get
on with it and when he returned there was only 8 mins to go displayed
on screen. after afew mins he noticed process bar was not operating.
apparently he thought computer had frozen and he said no response to
keys or open cd. thus he removed power. onreconnection power led on
disc scanning for a while fan on. disc ejected no problem. switched
off the back pn again inserted disc scanned for around 30 secs then
just sits there doing nothing. since then I tried for him and it the
same on mains alone or battery alone or both however still charges
battery. no F12 F2 F8 F6 no ALT F11 no responses at all only green
power light on with both mains or battery supplying power or both
installed however still charges battery. initial turn on no flashing
cap lights etc just power led on. diconnected everything in turn ram,
hdd, cd, etc right down to motherboard checked for "dry joints"
nothing .reseated cpu checked everything i have seen on net to try.
afriend with same machine took my psu home worked on his daughters
1150 no problem. no its not the psu jack on mine. only thing I think
of is 40gb hdd was somehow corrupted in my sons absence.I know it is
an old machine but having spent so much time being frustrated with
this I wondered if anyone had any other ideas and is there any way to
confirm hdd. No have asked friend to borrow his daughters 1150 for
comparison but he is afraid my machine may damage his parts or vice
versa and he may have to fork out for another machine for his
daughter which is the situation I face and money is tight after we
were made redundant last year. any HELP!!! appreciated b4 an early
grave ensues for me not the 1150.

[Bob_Villa]

Post by ~misfit~
Wall of text.... too hard to read.
D- Need to try harder.
--
Shaun.

Hi Shaun! Hope you're managing well...and the Best in the New Year! (✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

[~misfit~]

Post by Bob_Villa

Post by ~misfit~
Wall of text.... too hard to read.
D- Need to try harder.
--
Shaun.

Hi Shaun! Hope you're managing well...and the Best in the New Year!
(????)?

Hi Bob. :)

Thanks for the good wishes - the same to you, all the best for 2016. :)