My laptop died this morning. It had been running for a few minutes on battery power - I thought I had it plugged into AC. It shut off. No big deal, I plugged it in and tried to restart. It POSTs, then goes to the Windows XP Home splash. Then it shuts off and tries to start again. Then I get the "start in safe mode etc " option. I try all the options including start "normally" and last good configuaration. No luck.
I will pull the HD and put into an external enclosure to test the drive and see if that is the issue.
I did try pulling each of the 2 sticks of RAM individually to see if that was the issue.
Any other suggestions of what I might try?

Thanks.

K