My Dell Latitude Cpx  is failing to boot.?
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It's either your power cable/power adapter, a bad power connector on the motherboard, or a bad CPU/CPU fan. I had a dell inspiron something or another and my power connector on my motherboard broke so it would not turn on unless I had it a certain way but as soon as I moved it or bumped it, it would shut back off. If it doesn't power on, I'd say get rid of the Dell and go with something more reliable like HP, Toshiba, or Sony (just to name a few) Look on ebay or tigerdirect, or hp/gateway/etc for used laptops.  Good luck with fixing the hunk of junk from Dell.
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If it is a new laptop, bring it back to the store, contact the manufacturer site for help.\nIf it is old, bring it to the store for repair, cause it is a hardware problem, more fix on your end only cause more trouble.\nKeyboard is a very robust device, so if it doesnt function as expected, it got to be hardware.
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It appears from the code that you have an issue with the system board of the laptop. You can try resetting the BIOS to the default settings, saving it then rebooting. If it goes into the error again you will need to have it serviced. If it is a Pentium 3 or older, It is probably not worth the cost as you can get new laptops now under 1,000. If you are worried about data on the drive, you can get a external caddy for the hard drive to salvage the data. You can find them at newegg for under 50 bucks.
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You did not state if it was XP Professional or Home you are using, so I included both link to create a bootable floppy.\nYou did not mention if you had a floppy on not.
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The 1st thing I'd try is to uninstall it and try a new install. sometimes installations fail.
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You could boot it in safe mode, but that won't help you much. I suggest talking with someone with admin rights to set up your application. TX
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something in the boot programming is messed up, i suggest you take it to some tech place and have it looked at
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I would call Dell. the customer service can take you through the process step by step.
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Did you go into your Bios Settings and set the Boot Order? \n\nSome CD copies just don't boot.  Sorry\n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
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If the bios is set to boot the CD ROM-possibly the harddrve has died.  If the hardrive isn't spinning on bootup the computer isn't going to find the operating system. I might try another version of linux before purchasing another hd.  \nIs the windows xp cd really a dvd and the computer only a cd rom?
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check if there is any internal burning of components. If the motherboard or any subordinate board is burnt, the system goes into lockdown. If you find the burn, replace the part and you should be fine. You can identlfy the burn by the smell.\n\nIn case there is no burning, check all your connections and make sure they are secure and not loose. Specially the power and monitor cables. Make sure the power outlet is not overloaded with hardware.\n\nIf things still dont work, contact dell. Their after sales service is pretty decent..
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just re-install the os.\nfresh.  clean.
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The old models of Dell laptop usually have this problem. I had the latitude just like you do and had the same problem. That was the problem from motherboard of the laptop. If you currently have problem with keys 8, i, k, and &, you will have problem with other keys on the other days.  Thing I did to fix my laptop is taking part number of the motherboard and order a new motherboard from Dell, problem's gone. The motherboard is around $100, if you don't want to repair it, try to sell it to someone who can fix it.
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Try repairing the Windows XP (It will come as "Repair Windows" or something like that, in the set up screen). During the set-up this option is provided. This is safest bet. And would probably work.\n\nIf this fails, then I am afraid that reinstalling is the only option.
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Try to do a windows repair by booting from a windows xp cd.  Then continue with a windows setup and do a repair when it asks you to.
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Alot of things could be wrong.  I usually spend an hour or more running virus/spyware scans on computers, installing updates, optimizing boot programs, running boot and file system defrags, etc when people are having this problem.  If you don't know someone that can do this for you, then you should take it to Best buy or a local repair shop... assuming it's out of warrenty.  \nIf it's in warrenty... call Dell.\n\n(And for the fellow who thought it would be funny to say Windoze is slow... my computer which is getting on 3 years old with XP sp2 boots from cold poweroff in 16 seconds.  It could be faster but I allow for a 5 second OS delay just incase i want to boot a diff OS.  Slow is all a matter of how you manage your startup programs.)
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go to mycomputer and right click > properties> click hardware > device manager and find the device your having problems with