yankee34

With the laptop screen, just white on startup, with external monitor everything is working as it should. ctrl+alt+esc nothing happeans....

Dell inspiron M5030 Hi no I've nothing to test it on, it was working fine, then on the next re-boot just a grey & white grainy screen, back light is good, contrast etc works, could it possibly be that the invertor has gone ? Sorry forgot no nothing at all on the laptops screen ...

Dell inspiron M5030 .. Laptop boots up but screen appears white/grey, external monitor plugged in hard drive etc etc are fine .... HELP .... new screen ?

Thanks .. I can buy with confidence now ... cheers ...

Hello again : Can anyone answer me this small & probably stupid question : I want to change the hard drive in my laptop : at present it has an IDE 80GB Seagate 4200rpm .. does the rpm of a hard drive matter if so why? cheers ...

ok : guys & girls, I bought yet another laptop & have been able to partition & install windows xp on both of my hard drives (which I believed were dead), both are now working like a dream.. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem was with my other laptop, I've again attempted to use a new hard drive & new copy of windows xp & it will not allow me to partition the drive or go any further with the installation??????????

Cheers guys for response's : Seth, I've already tried this & it didn't make a difference, what next, is the board saveable.... wolfeymole, yep I bought a 20gb & the unpartitioned space was 19736, I set intitial device to cd rom before attempting the new install, I've tried to format but get the bad command warning : help !!!!!!

Wolfeymole: tried all of the above & I'm no further on? I purchased a new hard drive & a new copy of windows xp, the o/s starts to load then it asks me to set a partition this I attempt but am not allowed to go any further, the first screen shows "unpartioned space" I attempt to create a new partition but am thrown back to the first screen, I attempt to load windows without a partition, again totally unsuccessfully, am I missing something???

Right I see what & were to go, many thanks for the moment.. Please don't go far as I will probably require your help again... Thanks...Yankee 34

yes both Drives have XP loaded on them & both were working fine, my kids bought one each so they keep their stuff seperate, it's only been since I was setting up the Wifi connection etc, on the newer laptop, I got the system memory dump message then nothing....

Many thanks, does this mean that the Hard Drives, are not beyond use, if so, I think I'm right in what you've said "purchase another copy of xp & it should load on either of the my 2 existing Drive's ? is there any thing else I can do....

Yes?, I have 2 Identical Laptops, 1 is passed its best so the plan was to move the hard etc etc etc.......

Both Drives are Hitachi Travelstar 80GB IDE/ATA & were working fine in my other lattop yesterday, In fact both have been for quite a few months so can you see my dilema...

Yes, to both : but what I don't quite understand is, that this has happeaned with 2 seperate known working hard drives, can there be a problem with my motherboard, I don't want to splash out on another hard drive to have the same thing occur....

Can any one help?? My Laptop a Time 8375, has just crashed, firstly I got a System memory dump message, I rebooted the system as normal, I then get a message stating that my Hard disk had no Active Partition's, I attempted to reboot using the reload cd, nothing happeaned, I next attempted to repair windows with the original os cd, "nothing" I re-booted & attempted to re-install windows with the original cd, now I can't get passed the ""set up partition part"", I've attempted to re-format the hard drive but it won't let me do that either, I've tried all the above with another known working hard drive & still nothing. Can any one please help...