active yes. When I tried to restart, nothing would come up, just screen with mpc on it. Is there anything I can do to get back to where I started?. I have no recovery or start up disk for this computer
I am not an expert with such things and I hate fiddling around with somebody else's computer so after replacing the bios battery I would format the hard drive and reload the operating system and make it my computer - that way you would be getting rid of all the accumulated junk, damaged files and software conflicts computers gather over time.
If you don't have a systems disc you could try installing Linux a free operating system.
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I am not an expert with such things and I hate fiddling around with somebody else's computer so after replacing the bios battery I would format the hard drive and reload the operating system and make it my computer - that way you would be getting rid of all the accumulated junk, damaged files and software conflicts computers gather over time.
If you don't have a systems disc you could try installing Linux a free operating system.