I had just purchased a Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop 2 months ago. It work well until few days ago. It hangs whilst at the screen 'starting windows'. After that it showed the message of 'check cable connection. operating system not found'. i had try in many ways to solve it, but still not work. I press F7 go to the advance boot option and try to repair it, but none of it work, all showed message of ERROR. And now it hangs at the screen of Dell logo. How can i fix this problem?

Boot into Safe Mode by pressing F8 during boot. Right click My Computer and Manage. Check for hidden devices ubder View and delete all CD drives. Reboot and Windows will auto install.

You have a bigger problem if it fails to install and work. Then I would try re-seating the drive physically. GL

buy a coolpad .its cheap and have 2 or 3 fans in it some have even 4 fans
and it is very easy to attach with laptop through usb port just like a pendrive.
buy it . coolpad will prevent ur laptop from over heating.

this is software problem i.e windows try to reinstall your windows and format all the partition this is usually occours by viruses . it takes hours at startup and at launching any app.
for backup your files reboot your computer and press f8 key and run computer in safe mode copy all the important files on your flash drive

When booting press f8 a few times until your boot options is listed, and select start windows normally

I am glad to HELP YOU!

The problem that are you describing here occurs many times - even for the BRAND NEW laptops!
The RAPID DRAINAGE of the batteries can have multiple causes:
# a defective battery
# the humidity of the storage place
# a bad connector
and so on.
What I'd suggest you is to take back your machine to the store and to ask for a BATTERY REPLACEMENT. I assume that if you said you've bought your Dell 25 days ago it should be under some WARRANTY CONDITIONS...
The next battery you will gt do like this:
# attach the battery into its slot
# make sure your Dell machine is OFF
# connect the AC power supply into the wall plug
# with the machine still OFF let the battery fully charge for AT LEAST 16 HOURS.

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driver or hardware problem if it is happening when using the web cam and mic then thats a good place to start update the divers for them and see if it takes care of the problem

your motherboard has an video card? if it has an video card then try to check it maybe it is damaged or loose.. try to replace it with another vga card.. don't buy just borrow it to another pc. if u dont have any vga card check your memory or ram.. cheer

Try starting explorer by going to file\new task (run..) and typing explorer.

If it doesnt work, just type msconfig on the same box and go to startup tab, leaving everything unmarked, just reboot your pc and problem should be solved

Im sorry but bios passwords are set by the owner of the computer, probably the guy you bought it from. see online for a boot password resetter.

the first thing i would do is do a bios update for the machine whilst using AC power, that may well iron the problem out, if not then there is a problem with the laptop itself i.e. a power drain, sizzling and popping noises is not good at all and could damage the machine further, remove the battery and check the connections on the laptop, dust and hair conduct electricity, it could be as simple as that, it is also a known fact that some lithium batteries are faulty and have been known to blow up whilst in use.
Go to the laptops support website to find out if they have been having problems with batteries and if there any returns proceedures

best regards