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Old Dec 7, 2007 | 9:02 am
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Happyguy
 
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Originally Posted by LIH Prem
5 year old emachines laptop? Remove the hard drive, buy a usb 2.5" enclosure for the hard drive if there's anything on it you haven't backed up somewhere else that you need, and get a new $500 - $600 notebook.

It's dead, Jim.

Some cheap notebooks won't power up at all without the battery.

-David
This is good advise! Stop wasting your time, yank the hard drive and buy a new machine.
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