Originally Posted by Ibram

rkzenrage, I can't claim to service computers for a living, but I've got two laptops that the family gave up on, thinking they were beyond all salvation, so they gave them to me like they do with everything thats busted ("here, you can have my *cough*trusty old laptop! and for your sister... here, we ordered this for you a few weeks ago, a brand new dell laptop!"), and lo and behold, I got them to both work well enough to use... If you have a general idea what's wrong I might could help you with that.