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hello guys just came back from work

ose Awe, thanks to everyone

for you to go through all this steps of installing and changing your os, you must know what you"re doing. well, the best i can suggest is leave the computer plugged to mains and leave in the bios for 1hour if it shutdown there then you have hardware fault if doesnt then you have a software problem which means you need to provide with more information on what you previously did and what happen

Comptia A+ or microsft certified system engineer (MCSE), best thing is to do some online reseach

best thing is to do some online research.

ok, thanks for checking. as you probably know by now the problem is with the battery staus Idle 0% charge that because the battery is gone and the AC Adaptor no device installed that means is not able to make contact with the battery. your charger is perfectly fine is just an issue with the battery. That why i made those suggestions because the engineer you went to see didnt know there is battery health check in the bios they just made assumption is a problem with the motherboard, had in being that you went ahead with the repair most liklely the problem willl still be there. I was just checking on the manufacturer website and apparently the version of Bios you"ve got is out of date. according to the manufacturer website click on the support then drivers & download and select your model and make. you need to download version A09 date released 10/12/2005.

SO, try that infact i try looking for yor email address on your proffile to see if i can send it to you as email attachment, but i couldnt find it. anyway, here you are support.dell.com. if all fails after downloading the bios update then replace the battery

Hope we were able to help,

Deji

Windows 7 is got better graphic user interface, ease of searching, network made easy, network diagnostics plus the ability to easily network is predecessor

giving you some infor on upgrading the bios is not a problem. but, why are you doing this ? installing bios upgrade for unknown reason can damage the system (mainboard) if you"re sure you have a genuine reason for doing it then I"ll suggest you go to the manu website
by typing into your address bar support.euro.dell.com then press enter dont put www as this wont take straight to the page

I think the above picture is not good enough, well here another one. please dont judge me, as it once said all fingers aint equal everyone is different and respected in their own waya (4 those people that loves critizing on nairaland). do your own things,is a free world

good shots

well, I have money as in taking care of myself and other things. I`m not sure if that what you meant ?

for you to partition your HDD into 3, you must be very good and know what you were doing.

How did you partition and what was your intension ? e.g the use of any third party software, or to mutiboot

what make is your machine ?

o/s xp or vista ?

which partition did you delete ? e.g recovery partition

based on my experience I"ll be having an educated guess mostly you using hp or compaq. just a guess though

ok, I will have another go.

click start
my computer
view system information
hardware
device manager
look for portable device or other device
click on the + right click on what you see underneath
and click uninstall click ok and restarted your computer should be fine

Am having a bit of problem with my a/c is not posting all my texts

, continue, sorry that diags was incomplete what you need to do is right click on each of them and click uninstall then click ok restart your computer and wait for 15 minutes until everything is install then test it should be fine

Have tried it and is ok.

cheers

uninstall/delete the software following the above instruction after that restart your computer go on google and type yahoo messenger click on it should prompt you to run or save click on save to any location maybe desktop, my document any location of your choice and follow screen instruction. is self explanatory

Do you have norton security software installed ? because there some known issues with norton.

some of our troops aint online or busy helping other people, ok is it xp or vista. I"ll stay here for 15 minutes just for you so quick reply is needed. give us the actually dll erros because there thousands of dell files so we need to know which one it is

what make is your machine

when does the problem start ?

Have you install any windows update ?

How many security software do you have installed and what the name ?

Thanks for your concern

@estilo any update on that ?

@wizzywisdo

Did you install vista by it`s original cd or duplicate version ?

did you insert the product key at back of cd casing or the one underneath your notebook

Or was it actually recover using hidden recovery partion on the hard drive
just to give you a clue, did you press any key on the keyboard during start up

bios

Bios screen looks like this scroll up and you see some options relating to battery and let us know what it says

How old is the machine ? since you"ve tested the battery on different computer and charge ok then that means the battery is ok and you are using a compatable ac adaptor which is fine, so it would be down to the mobotherboad as the technicians says. But am suspecting your laptop is about 2-4 yrs old and lacking bios update. let be check on the manu website to see if there is any update

meanwhile we need to check the battery health by going into the bios, first and foremost

turn off your notebook back on dont wait for anything and keep pressing f2 on the keybaord until you get a blue screen should say something like bios setup utility if f2 didnt bring up anything then try delete key until you get the blue screen and look for option relating to the battery meter, this would tell you if the battery is healthy or not worth doing it. I"ll see if I can get a picture on how the screen looks like. tecs in the house I hope am on the right track

what actually happen ? give us more description e.g unable to click on contact, wont senf the message
this are the basic stuff we need to know and did you get any error message when is stop working ?

meanwhile, what we going to do is call ATX RESET, this discharge static electricity build up which may be store on the main board/cpu

Take the battery and charger out

Disconnect all pheripherals from the laptop such as printer, speakers, usb device etc

Hold your finger down on the power button for about 20 secs

just connect the charger only to the electricity(mains) Turn on the laptop no battery remember

Immediately you turn it on keep pressing f2 on your keyboard you should get a blue screen if not try f1 or delete key
until you ge the blue screen should say something like bios setup utility

once you"re on the blue screen leave it like that for about 1 hour if the laptop turn itself off here then you have a faulty laptop which need repairing if doesnt turn off here for about 1hr then is a software problem and is just a case of reinstalling the opearing system back to square one it might infected with viruss let us know the outcome

@Dclique

what make is your laptop ?

xp or vista ?

have you install any windows update ?

Did you get any error/warning message when it turns off ?

Has the laptop been dropped ?

is there any damages to the usb ports and the laptop dc port(where the charger goes into)

when it turn off itself Were you using the laptop on your lap, table or on the bed ?

when you were using it Has there been a power cut (off nepa)

This are all the basics will need to know in order for the tecs to give best advice and sorry if this too much am just trying to think out of the box

I dont mind

me @ city center