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I replaced the missing ground screw as suggested by bcastner but unfortunately the machine is still dead. My main concern was recovery of my data from the hard drives so I bought a similar Inspiron 8000 on eBay for $525 and have transferred my drives into it. Would still like to get the old...

I set up a Search Folder, select the option "Mail from and to specific people", pick the person from my contacts folder and run the query. Outlook seems to find the messages FROM the person I selected but only a fraction of the messages I've sent TO that person. It seems to find some of the...

Thanks again bcastner. Great tips. I will try to get the right screw and see what happens.

bcastner - thanks for tip. You may have hit on the problem. Is the screw you mention marked K and located directly above the one marked K/M (when you hold it so the letters are upright)? Because I am missing that screw entirely.

Thanks Isman11. Since putting up my query, I've surfed a number of websites and found that switching itself off a few seconds after turning on the power appears to be a common failure mode with the Dell Inspiron laptop. One guy suggested that maybe a hardware failure of some sort is causing the...

Yes, it was x-rayed. My second laptop that was with me though was fine.

In reply to questions: I tried holding the bios setup key down as it tries to start but it makes no difference. It was sitting maybe two weeks before it failed. It had also been on a plane journey.

I have a 3-year old Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop running Windows 2000 that will not start. (The battery has been dead for over a year, so I always use it on AC power). The 3 green lights for power, hard drive and battery come on, I hear the hard drive spin up but after about 7 or 8 seconds there's...