tankie

Hii was recently given a advent 6522 laptop. Successfully wiped of /reformated harddrive of mellinium.

Put xp home on, all new drivers etc, replaced cmos battery (without taking cpu out)
It worked fine for a day then would not start.

I presumed it was the battery and life hours, so i purchased a new battery, left it charging and its still the same.

I press it on, the green lights come on , the fan wizzes around for 2 secs and then stops, took it apart to have a look and i can feel power going to the harddrive, but thats where my knowledge stops!

It came with a dud harddrive that had recently been replaced, is there a known error with these?

40gig HD
128 ram (think) (will be upping that!)

Thanks for any advice.