No power when switch is thrown?

yeah. it wont turn on when you hit the switch. I think she's gonna try en.kioskea.net/forum/aff... when she gets home

No sounds of the hard drive spinning up, no fan, no video?

If that's true, it's the power supply.

On a desktop, it costs about $50 to replace.

I'm not sure. She just called me :-/ it's a compaq she got back in may. I'll ask her about the hard drives when she gets back.

sorry David thats no good

If nothing comes on, it's the power supply. Beyond that, it depends on how far you get in the boot process that determines where the failure

exists.

what if the ring around the cord is turning blue? I was able to ask that. if it is the power supply how hard is that to fix on laptop?

Everything is more difficult on a laptop. If it's just the battery failing, that's easy. Beyond that it's time in with a technician.

To answer your blue ring question... It depends on which side of the power supply the ring is on.

On my laptop I could [theoretically] blow my power supply and the green light on the transformer will still light.