A few nights ago, I opened the lid to my 1150 and it had a black screen with a white blinking cursor in the top left corner. So I shut it down and restarted and I either get the black screen or it freezes at the xp startup screen. The progress bar makes about 3 cycles and the stops. I ran the diagnostics in boot mode and it told me to insert the drivers and diagnostics cd after running through a few tests. I inserted the cd but I couldn't finish the extended test because my battery died. That's the other thing: If I run on AC power, I get the black screen at startup everytime. If I start with battery power and then plug in the AC at any time, it immediately freezes. The furthest it will go while running in normal mode with battery power is the xp start screen. I logged on in safe mode and checked the event viewer and nothing seemed out of the ordinary (but what do I know). A few errors such as DCOM, sr, svart, and real time clock have occurred over the past few weeks. Hopefully the battery will be charged after I get home from work and I can finish the extended diagnostics test.

 

Here's some background on the system: The original hard drive went bad about 7 months ago and they gave me a refurbished one. A month ago I swapped out the CD drive for a cd/dvd burner. No problems occurred after I did this. It was immediately recognized, but would that have caused this? Other than that, those are the only recent changes made to the system.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you