The daily computer question

[Crazy Horse]

I have a s***ty old Thinkpad X20 laptop, running WinXP home, which I maintain primarily to keep my wife from downloading spyware onto my own laptop. She just uses it for email and internet.

 

A few buttons on the keyboard had stopped working, so I bought a replacement one on ebay and installed it. However, the computer won't boot now, it gets most of the way through the bootup, then starts again. Won't boot in safe mode either. I put the old keyboard back in and now it won't boot up with that one either. One of the brainiac features that the X20 designers came up with was to build it without a floppy drive or CD-ROM drive, so I can't run a boot disk.

 

In short, is there a simple fix to this problem, or should I just say feck it and buy her a cheapo $500 Laptop to replace it?

[R A Softlad]

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[Crazy Horse]

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