My Computer Maybe Dieing!, =[ Options

[lkajsfklajskds]

Yesterday, me and my sister were watching some movies on my laptop. And then the whole thing froze. We did the natural thing:
CtrlAltDelete.

But the thing never came up. And i have a vista so the computer never turned blue first. Nothing seemed to work. So..
We just pressed the off button and it turned off.

And, ofcourse, we turned it back on. But i say that in the weakest of sense, because it didnt exactly turn on.

We pressed the button TO turn it on, but a screen came up that said:
"There as been a disk read error. Please press CtrlAltDelete"

My first thought was "Well, atleast my computers not dead"
So, we pressed CtrlAltDelete
The computer "restarted" but instead of fully restarting, it went back to that screen.
We even let the battery run out and tried it again but it didnt work =[

AAHHHHH, we could never turn on the computer!

DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHATS GOING ON?!
I DO NOT WANT TO REBOOT THE COMPUTER!!

(In case you're wodnering, i'm usig my sisters laptop. THANK GOD she's here for the week)

[Just_Dream]

Oh man, that's Dell for you. Seriously, I got sent to Technical Support (eh, go to my customer care thread if you want details) and they were like "Okay well have you gone to Control Panel? Okay does it say you only have 1 graphics card? Are you sure it only says 1? Alright well I can't really do much for you". .... I think that with the computer that we had, we would KNOW that our computer has and does not have. They usually ask you dumb questions "have you tried restarting?" even if you tell them that you've restarted it before.

It might be the graphics card -- as tamacracker said -- because mines died on me before and it started lagging and then the computer would always take me to this black screen and augh. D: