my laptop won't come on why ?

To confirm if your hardware is okay try booting the machine with a boot-able OS CD in the drive.

E.g, Download a Linux Live CD and see if your PC will boot from the CD drive. (If this works your PC will run Linux live from the CD without touching your hard disk - it is a safe test.) This would prove that your RAM and power supply etc are okay and that the issue may be the OS installed on your hard disk.

Good luck

Bart
January 2010

well could be that your hard drive is failing which is a common problem with compags but pop it into a repair shop and find out

0ee
January 2010

try press f1 as you power up, press and hold it till it comes on .

mick
January 2010