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Do you have the latest drivers installed?

WARNING: Before you start troubleshooting remember that you are dealing with electricity that can KILL. http://www.kitchentablecomputers.com/static.php - rules Test all power and data leads that attach to your hard drive IDE,SATA the leads from your (motherboard to your hard drive) make sure they have secure dust free connections and are not faulty if its a 40 pin flat ribbon type it will be the first to fail make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even something as small as a faulty electrical fan and its lead can cause you problems computers need all power and data to continue through every working device and to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error Check your RAM. The RAM is located in the middle of the motherboard. There are tabs that you can push to release the RAM. Remove it and put it back in place until the tabs pop out. Loose RAM can cause your computer not to start properly where you want to see a video signal. Make sure your graphics card is securely seated with no dust built up or in the socket if you remove your graphics check the socket to make sure its dust free Restart your computer then reinstall it this should activate found new hardware wizard Check the vga lead for secure dust free connection or try another vga lead.

If you are installing Windows, manually go to Windows Update and look for the optional updates. You may find the latest drivers for these parts there. Otherwise, open the System control panel, click on the Hardware tab, then Device Manager. Look at each device marked with a yellow warning icon and identify the part. Go the website for each part's manufacturer and download the driver from there. Another method is to download and run the Astra system parts identifier program or similar utility.

Post back if you are installing Linux, and let us know what distribution you are using.

It appears the manufacturer's on-line support for your model is non-existent or just very hard to find.

try this link might be what your looking for

Drivers Downloads - FileHippo.com

Chances are, with a bare bones system that you are describing, that you are not going to find a set of drivers like you want. What you may need to look for is the chipset drivers for the motherboard, particularly if you have on board video and ethernet.

from the looks of it this is a VIA KM266 chipset. with a Relatek RTL8139 network card, and AC97/8233A VIA sound and S3 Savage4-PRO+ 266DDR graphics.

If you search around for those drivers, you will probably have better luck, but be advised, that just because they use this chipset on one system, doesn't mean that they didn't change up to something else. So no guarantees that this is yours chipset, but my guess is that this will get you pretty close

start your system in safe mode.when u poweer up the laptop press F8 then enter in safe mode.
then go to run type "chkdsk /r
then press enter then "y"
then restart the laptop then it recover your harddisk bad indedexedx and fix harddisk for errors.
may be your laptop virus infected scasn your laptop with avast and other antivirus with latesy update.

you may try
1) check RAM memory, fine the memory slots at back side (in a small cover) cross chenge memories if there are two, change other memory if only one.
2) restore or reinstall your windows.

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