Thanks for the advise, I got another battery (salesman at radio shack let me try the one out of his cell which was charged) and it still did not power up. It is on its way back to buy.com right now. Just sucks that it will be at least 10 days before I cane even expect or hope to see a replacement. My laptop died last week and with that out getting repaired I am down to receiving my email via text message on my cell and whenever I am at someones house so I can use their computer. I have one at work that runs the wireless network server but it is in a unheated basement and is not supposed to be used for anything else. I work as a night watchman and hardest part of job is staying awake. Back to bringing books for a while! Thanks again for the advice, Steve