so this started yesterday afternoon when I went to turn my computer on it immediately after pressing the power button and I mean not even a second after starts flashing these colors and it does two sets from white to black and then finishes with a white red and then turns off. upon opening the device and testing this I noticed that not even the fan starts and after trying all these other steps that other people have used in the forums I am still out of luck. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ok so I somehow fixed it. i had to disassemble the laptop and disconnect both batteries from the mother board and i gave it an hour, (while i looked at the rest of it's insides) and then put it all back together, plugged it in and waited 10 min before pressing power and it took a few moments to recheck it's self and rebuild it's cmos ram. but it now works fine again. i will leave messages of it happens again though

the second one is the little CR2032 'I think' but it's the only black and red that connect to a small block junction and to a round black disk the size of 3 quarters Canadian size. that's the final battery

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Rolling back to XP

I am sure this is all over this forum, but I got 3 questions. I recently upgrade to Vista, my computer came with the free upgrade thing when it. I have having problems now with my printer, my blackberry software and the fact that some programs never installed back. I have read where some people with differnt RC version(whatever that means)dont have any issues. 1st question how do you tell what RC version of windows that you have 2nd question is first how do you roll back to XP or can you even roll back. 3rd if you have a lower RC version, can you upgrade to one of the other later RC version

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Posted December 5th, 2007 01:00
because it was an upgrade and not a clean install (if i am understanding you correctly), that could account for your issues.

have you tried to find vista drivers/software for your blackberry? what programs didn't install back?
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Posted December 5th, 2007 01:00
RC means "release candidate"

You do not have this, what you have is RTM "release to manufacturer" no version numbers for RTM

How to roll back to XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933168
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Posted December 5th, 2007 03:00
How to roll back to XP

Hi momdodog

The link you have is if you do a nondestructively clean install as in do not format the drive

the process names the folder windows old and you can do a roll back to an earlier version

of windows.

The upgrade process names the folders something different and the roll back will not work !

See Yea.

Important If the Windows.OLD folder does not exist, you cannot follow the steps in this article to restore the previous Windows installation to this computer.
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Posted December 7th, 2007 22:00
Well the programs that didn't install back are the Netwaiting, Quickset, Digital Line Detect, and the Dell Support 3,2,1 As far as the blackberry software I tried to re-download the desktop software and that did nothing. Also the driver for my printer is not working and i got it from the Epson website. So I guess this RTM version of windows is not the same release as what what put out, i just figured that since i waited so long to do the upgrade they would have everything fixed by now. Oh well i guess i have to wait.
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Posted December 7th, 2007 22:00
So I guess this RTM version of windows is not the same release as what what put out,

Hi

It is the same there is no other Vista !

Some people call it RTM,Gold,Retail or OEM its still the same Vista !!

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Posted December 8th, 2007 06:00
re-downloading the same software probably won't help - you need to make sure it's vista compatible. did you make sure that you were downloading the vista driver for your printer?

as far as the other programs - of course they wouldn't automatically install since they are not a part of windows to begin with.

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