My boyfriend got the laptop from someone and he plugged it in and turned it on and waited and Windows did not appear. So he gave me the laptop to see if I could get it going. He also told me that he couldn't turn it off. He had to unplug it. So I got the laptop yesterday I plugged it in and first thing i saw was a number on the black screen it doesnt doing anything. Underneath that number was a little white line and it was pulsing I guess you could say. I also heard a noise that sounded like and outerspace beep I guess you could say. I tried the slider button at the top of the keyboard nothing happened I tried the purple button in the middle nothing happened. I dont know if any Windows is on the laptop. I put a windows 98 cd into the cd-rom and nothing happened. I put a bootable floppy in the floppy drive and nothing happened. I know its an old laptop and I dont really want to waste money trying to figure out whats wrong with it if I can fix the problem myself. My boyfriend says that hes going to ask the person who gave him the computer whats wrong with it but he doesnt know exactly when he will ask this person.
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