A friend gave me a laptop to look at. About 90% of the time when you hit the power button the power led will come on and the fans will start up but nothing else happens. No beeps, no BIOS messages, ...

i just got this from a friend and this issue happens when im booting (windows logo) and when im already loaded it works fine but then it freezes and the weird thing is that i would have to move the ...

It sounds like a classic case of corrupted print spool in Win9x.<BR><BR>Disable write behind caching in the system control panel File system properties as the first thing.<BR><BR>The second thing you ...