Got an ancient laptop; need help

[Narkro555]

I just managed to get a free, ancient Windows XP laptop, but I'm having problems with it. First, the screen's backlight is gone. I also think the battery is faulty. But the main issue is that when I turned it on for the second time, it was stuck on the "Welcome" opening message for a long time. You can't see what's on the screen because of how dim it is, and the camera's flash.

http://img29.imageshack.us/i/img1631w.jpg/

http://img684.imageshack.us/i/img1630t.jpg/

Help?

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[Tom Gunn]

I use to have one like that.

Also dust it out.

[DracoSoul]

OLD

[Narkro555]

Also dust it out.

How? What? Where?

OLD

lol

[Narkro555]

Okay, new question. How do I hook it up to a new screen?

[Parallel]

Okay, new question. How do I hook it up to a new screen?

You need to plug a moniter into the moniter jack, on an old comp like that probably a blue upside down almost triange shaped jack.

[Narkro555]

You need to plug a moniter into the moniter jack, on an old comp like that probably a blue upside down almost triange shaped jack.

Uh, I tried that. Any other ideas?

[General Nick]

Recycle it. Just don't even bother trying to get that... walking corpse... alive.

[Sirrus]

Are you kidding me, you think that's old?

I have a smith carona laptop.

[JakDaStripR]

My mom used to have an ancient laptop like that. But when she stopped working for her company (Due to Lyme disease) She had to give it back. I wish I woulda got it.

[Radial543]

put some linux on that

[Narkro555]

Hey, I got the screen to work. Yay

[Parallel]

Hey, I got the screen to work. Yay

Good.

[Narkro555]

I un-hibernated it with the screen plugged in. Now it won't be able to move because of the ancient heavy-weight box called a screen that's attached.

[Makingblah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfyYzI_WbYQ