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Tech help pls.: My HP laptop wont boot
July 3 2009
| max
Posted on 07/03/2009 7:59:53 PM PDT by max americana
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To: ShadowAce
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:00:18 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: max americana
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:00:37 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: rabscuttle385
No dice on the safe mode/f8 process. Thanks for the reply.
To: max americana
Is it seeing your boot drive? What does the BIOS say?
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:09:11 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: max americana
Wait'll it gets just past the HP boot screen and F8 into Safe Mode. First thing: go into My Computer>Properties>Hardware>Device Manager, and see if you have any hardware flagged. Also go into My Computer>Manage>Event Viewer, and look at the logs to see what may have gone wrong.
I do this for a living, but I'm too bleary-eyed to follow up tonight. Shoot me a PM and let me know tomorrow.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:09:45 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
To: max americana
Rebooting with your recovery disk isn’t all bad news. Typically you don’t lose your data (unless you reformat), but you do need to re-install your applications — which is a jolly jumping nuisance but not the end of the world.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:11:39 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: max americana
It is the motherboard. If it is under warranty take it in immediately. I have had it happen twice with HP’s.
(Best Buy will honor the warranty, even if you did not buy it there.)
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:12:37 PM PDT
by
D Rider
To: max americana
Do you have a disk in the CD drive or an SD card in a slot.
You don’t give enough info to diagnose. What is the error message?
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:12:47 PM PDT
by
Vendome
To: max americana
Make sure you don’t have any disk in the floppy drive.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:12:47 PM PDT
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life or nothing at all)
To: advance_copy; max americana
They still have floppy drives in laptops? *raises eyebrow*
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:13:47 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: max americana
Try last known good configuration option and see if that works.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:13:59 PM PDT
by
alexandria
("If this be treason, make the most of it!" Patrick Henry)
To: DieHard the Hunter; Viking2002
Still black screen guys, I cant even see the windows xp screen...what gives???
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:15:21 PM PDT
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life or nothing at all)
To: D Rider
You are correct, it SHOULD be the motherboard...that’s why I hate HP. I was just too lazy to make copies.
To: Vendome
To: max americana
If you see the disk drive light blinking on powerup, then it is probably booting fine but your screen is dead. If that’s the case, you should have a video connection on the back and you can connect a regular monitor to it if you have one.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:17:34 PM PDT
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life or nothing at all)
To: alexandria
Black screen...sfae mode/f8 wont show.
It keeps TRYING to boot up but just like Obama’s promises...nothing.
To: max americana
Are you even getting a splash screen at bootup?
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:19:28 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
To: advance_copy
can you connect a usb drive to SEE the HP laptop from another laptop?
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