Does anything appear on the screen at startup or is it completly blank? If you don't see the BIOS then i dont think the recovery discs will be any use. I can send you a link to download a recovery disc if you have another pc to burn it onto a disc.
dont worry you will soon get the hang of it
Very funny Wayne :lol:
Would be nice to know why it wouldn't start all day, though, but I guess I'll never know.
well spotted, i like thatIt looks like it has your avtar picture on the screen
If it happens again try it with a monitor on the VGA port.
Is this a HP 6715 by any chance.
Can you try it without the battery via the mains ?
If this works then its the battery
reset the bios options (if accessible)
use the function key to flick between crt/lcd screen formats
@ Jimm, when I started using this laptop a few months ago, I wanted to use my old monitor instead of the wide screen on the laptop, as I preferred the 800x600 resolution of my monitor. I wasn't aware at the time that I could plug my old monitor in to the laptop to use it until someone told me I could do that, anyway, I tried it and nothing came up on the monitor, but the laptop screen was showing what should have been the 800x600 resolution, no idea how this techy stuff works.
Mine is a HP Pavilion DV6331eu
I'll try that tomorrow and see what happens, but I always run it from the mains all the time whilst the battery is still plugged in to the laptop.
I have no idea what bios are or what those function keys are?