My laptop will not get beyond the time and date initial blue screen.  Now not even showing the background picture.  I have tried just about all of the alternative boot options from F12, but still not able to get into to anything further.  This happened after the machine was re-opened in the morning as usual from closed-lid sleep.

Help me please, I'm desperate.  I'm writing  this on my old Inspiron, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do anything at all!

HELP!

Thank you in advance,

Annie.