I am having a Dell Inspiron laptop with Windows XP.
When I press the power button, the light blinks for few seconds (3-4 seconds) and then it goes off. The windows is not getting started at all. This is happening most of the times I tried. But sometime when I try to go to BIOS setup (F2) or safe mode (F5) or Boot Menu (F12)as soon as I press the power button, it starts booting. It was booted for once after I was trying different Function keys but somehow it went off due to power failure after that. I am not able to put the XP CD in the drive as the drive is not getting opened up in those 3-4 second when the laptop is in the power ON state. On few occasions I also got the message “Windows could not start properly last time” and all the options for starting the window in different modes – safe mode, last known configuration, normally, command prompt but the OS gets hanged after this screen and I have to hard boot the machine again. In the boot menu, the default source of OS is Internal Hard Disc. Also on few occasions the CD drive could came out by pressing thst when the laptp was in power ON state and looks like on that occasion Windows started booting to stage before it gets hanged again.
Appreciate your thoughts and resolution.
