I'm having a bit of trouble with my Compaq Presario X1000 laptop. Last night I was getting really slow speeds consistantly on my internet (33kb even THOUGH I have cable). Then today when I tried to turn on my computer, it would not even load. The power turns on, I hear a bit of sound coming from the HD but it stops. The Cd/DVD spins and the cpu fan goes as well, but there is just nothing on the screen. I'm pretty sure there is no problem with the screen because there is a flash when I force shutdown. Also I have tried numerous times to turn on my comp and ONE time it loaded normally. I immediately scan for adware and don't FIND any. Then I do a virus scan and the screen begins flickering. I can't do anything to stop and and I forced shutdown again. I have tried numerous times after that to turn on my computer again to no avail. Still that black screen although the power button is on and everything. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.troubleshooting a laptop can be difficult.  I think this could be more of a hardware failure somewhere more than anything. One of the reasons I'm saying this is because you don't even see the POST screen or the COMPAQ splash screen they usually display on their computers when you first boot them up.  I don't think your CPU has become loose, I used to build laptops for Gateway, and I remember that we screwed these in.  Which I'm sure everyone does because of the abuse they GET.  You may NEED to bring this in to a shop, unless you have a spare laptop where you can change out parts to troubleshoot the problem.  You may want to try and run diagnostic tests if you can boot to a floppy disk (although it doesn't sound like you are going to be able to).   If you need additional help, you can reach me at ResourcePC.

DaveIs this via the battery or mains adapter.........run scandisk.......to check hard drive......sectors for bad blocks...This happens via both adapter and batteries. I cannot run anything like scan disk or adware check because I can even get to the bios load screen.