A friend of mine has a Dell Inspiron 5150 2.8ghz Laptop.
He wants to sell it as having trouble and i may be interested but not sure what could be causing the error.
Basically everytime its switched on it reboots itself ?
As far as im aware from what he has said it is running XP .
So any ideas?
Dont have access to laptop at the moment but looking for ideas

Thanks

Hi,

At what stage does the laptop re-boot? What is on the screen when it re-boots? Any error messages? More info would help

From what he has said it gets to the dell / OS system screen and then reboots, no error messages as far as im aware

How confident are you in removing the bios battery?

If I may put my two cents worth in here...

If you want to remove the cmos battery, do not forget:

1. Remove the AC power cable from the Laptop

AND

2. Remove the motherboard battery as well.

Some people forget about removing the motherboard battery and that ain't good.

Would of been fine with it . . . only problem is just rang him and he's thrown it out . .
What a dork , told him would buy it off him but he was playing with it again and then chucked it in skip .
sorry for wasting your time guys