marc64

Hi Ken, thankyou for your time, ok i will start from the beginning, i have recently started a collage course and needed a laptop, my son found this emachine e422 at a car-boot sale with a cracked screen, bought it and brought it home along with the power lead etc, I went on-line and purchased a new screen and fitted it and this is where i am at, no i have not actually seen it working, but from what my son tells me it has had some upgrade (maybe memory?) i have tried your F8 procedure but nothing has changed, it still fires up ,the screen goes to some list of text, as follows, nysydel-120 3.5 , system bios version v2.06 bios build date 12/02/2010 and goes on to say the rest of the system but only for about 1 or 2 seconds then reverts to the"Enter correct Password?" but that's where i think something must be wrong, the cursor that i would think should blink just stays frozen, i have nothing to hide rethe password and am happy to give you the serial numbers if you wish?, what do you think might be the problem? or is there anything else i could try, seems a shame to have to give up since buying a replacement screen,

Hi, can anyone help?, my screen recently got cracked and so i bought a new screen and replaced it, after putting it back together i turned it on and heard it booting up and all seemed ok, the screen came alive and i noticed for a second or two i think some spec's and something to do with F2 and F12 then it went to a full blue screen with the password log-in, the problem i have is i do not know the password (was a secondhand-gift also i never set it) or can i even try to put a password in because the little dash is not blinking, its as if its frozen, i have tried the logical things like turning it off and rebooting, pressing all of the keys but nothing, the only way i can turn it off is to hold down the on button, Can anyone think of anything i could try to get it back working, i am a student and very short of funds so really would like to try and rectify the problem myself, thanks all for looking at my post and for any suggestions/help.