Dell inspiron help pls...

I most certainly have Expensive hobby this.....

Update! My wife had her work laptop in the back of the car...same as mine! I whipped a RAM card out of it (she won't notice :) and it boots up....

Right, on initial start up everything seemed OK, I set the clock/date, Installed my wireless network adaptor. It asked for a restart.

Since the restart the cursor wanders all over the screen and automatticly hits buttons that it crosses :-[.....I am trying to connect to the web to see if there are any updates for it...trouble is I cannot configure the connection as I can never get to the button I want, any ideas?

Regards rog8811

Unplug the internal touch-pad and use a USB mouse.
Quite a few of the old Dell laptops I've used have mouses that wander to one side.
Not sure why it's clicking though, might even be a software issue.

You could try safe mode to check whether it's a software issue. Press F8 as soon as it starts to boot. Is there anything stuck under the mouse button holding it stuck down?

Hmmmmm....I realised the other thing I changed when i rebooted was that I plugged into the mains adaptor....I have since gone back to batteries and it seems to behave. This is looking like a temperature thing

This post tryped on my new laptop Getting there, It seems that this computer origionaly had XP on it but needed to be downgraded to w2000 prof to run a chemistry programme..... I was hoping that XP would still be on it somewhere but it seems not :-[

Regards rog8811

I'd just format it and install a fresh copy of XP, do you have a copy?

No I don't have a copy of XP, I had a look on ebay and I am not sure that I want to spend that much.


The fan underneath the laptop doesn't seem to be running which explains the heating problem, if I raise the computer up a bit it seems to run OK on the mains supply.

Regards rog8811