Reburbished m1530 won't start/locked out?

I just got a refurbished m1530 from dell and when I hit the power it just shows a lock with the number 9 in it. Then after a minute it when into the bios load screen and just sat there. I can get into the bios settings though. What is going on?

Update: I managed to get into windows but the blue lock light with the 9 in it is still on? I imagine that is going to get me in trouble here soon enough.

Update 2: Just found out that the lock and the 9 is for the numericals. I guess there was just something wrong with my windows install so I'm reinstalling now even though I was going to wait till after the weekend.

 

I reinstalled windows to be told that the harddrive is unreadable or something. I should have known that no matter what I did Dell was going to screw me.

 

Ha well for a minute there I thought I still had a workable laptop. After an hour of windows updating it randomly restarts like crazy. Its trying to system restore but who knows.

 

Call Dell and have it replaced. There's no reason anyone should have to monkey around with a new notebook that way, refurbished or not. They'll replace it.

 

yeah, i just got a refurb and it works fine. for an xps they will help you out a lot

 

Yeah it seems like thats what I'll end up doing here. My earlier messages were filled with such rage. I ordered a new one in May and I waited a month and got nothing so when one with a led popped up on outlet I went for it.