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Laptop will not boot up
Name: Tom2324 Date: September 2, 2008 at 07:58:51 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: HP Product: Pavilion dvc5000
Comment:
My laptop out of the blue stoped booting up. It goes to the windows XP page, then goes black and back to the HP page, then keeps doign that without ever booting up. I tried this in the safe mode and in all modes ?? ANy suggestions ?
Name: eddiebelfast Date: September 2, 2008 at 08:38:37 Pacific
Reply:
Go into the Bios and run a hard disk check and if Ok run the Ram check. If the H/D check fails and you see a #7 in the message your H/D is corrupt. If it is , a way around is to create two partitions and install the OS again.
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Response Number 2
Name: Tom2324 Date: September 2, 2008 at 08:54:00 Pacific
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THis my sound dumb, but how do i find the hard disk set up in the bios ? Im in there now and the tabs are Main/Security/Advanced/Tools/Exit but do not see anything about hard disk under those tabs ?
Tom Miles
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Response Number 3
Name: Tom2324 Date: September 2, 2008 at 09:13:59 Pacific
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I did the HDD Self-Test..2 Minute Short Test and the Test Status said: Pass ? Im trying to find the RAM check now ?
Tom Miles
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Response Number 4
Name: mavis007 Date: September 2, 2008 at 13:56:30 Pacific
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... if you ain't worried about losing data from the drive try this:
info: There are two ways to access the Recovery Partition, in HP notebooks. One is through "Windows OS" and the other is using the "F11" key, at the time of POST.
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