Solved! Dell Studio Laptop

[cheerios17]

today i turned on my laptop and it just sat there with the lights on but no screen, I tried it again and it shut right back off after I booted it, this laptop has been shutting off lately and I thought maybe it was overheating but today when I had nothing on the screen I have no clue what is going on with it. Any ideas?

 

[WR2]

Do you have any bootable CDs or DVDs you can use to test?
You might need to use the F12 key to choose to boot from the DVD driver first.