HP/Compaq :: Dv5 Won't Boot
Mar 11, 2010
HP gave me a dv5 as a replacement for a zd7000 laptop that quit.
Now the dv5 has quit. It won't boot. It gets to the HP Logo screen and freezes. It never makes it to the BIOS screen.
I chatted online with HP support. After performing a few tests (the fan runs, etc) they concluded its a hardware problem. They want $400 to fix it.
The unit is 16 months old. It has seen VERY light usage.
I've sent an email to the people who handled the replacement of my zd7000.
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Jan 12, 2009
boot cd hiren`s boot 9.7 form cd. i can not boot cd in the laptop hp dv4.
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Jun 20, 2009
due to virus infections in my hdx 18 i hav formated my c drive.while the recovery drive is intack as it is in the d drive.i was didnt create my recovery discs as well.now during boot time when i press f11.it doesnt boot to the recovery drive in the HDD.it says no partition table found, i think i may hav deleted the mbr during format
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Jan 29, 2015
I'm trying to boot from legacy boot from my new dell 7000 series. however when i change from uefi to legacy i have no boot option. the whole boot list is empty.
i have called dell and the support desk told me dell has no support for legacy :S that means no windows 7 on my dell or any other os that uses non uefi...... i think the bios is corrupt is the whole list is simply missing.
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Jun 21, 2009
How in the heck do you make this dang thing boot off the CD-ROM?
It keeps wanting to load the operating system, regardless if the Windows XP cd is in there or not. I've tried pressing F12, F10, F1. Changing the boot options to load the "Multibay" first then the hard disk. It even pops up asking me what I want to boot from; multibay or hard disk. Choosing the multibay does nothing, it still loads the operating system regardless.
How do I make it boot the CD-ROM? I just need to get Windows XP Pro reinstalled on this thing.
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Mar 8, 2010
I have a HP Pavilion DV5-1235dx(model) that I bought 1 year ago.
And 1 week ago its got out of order! Broked! Don't BOOT! I don't know why, but I tryed a lot of ways to do it! But doesn't work!
I have a medium knowlege of computers, but other people said me that can be the Motherboard! Really? I think that maybe the problem is other...
I'll explain what I did to try fix it.° I'd took out the HD, and tryed turn it on in SATA/USB adapter. But my Desktop doesn't Recognized the Removable Disk! (The adapter is working I tested with other HD) šI'd tryed boot without HD. šI'd tryed to put other HD with Ubuntu that I have working.šI'd tryed boot with WinCD (XP/VISTA/7). Didn't work either.My BIOS lists the CD-ROM Drive but didn't anyone of HDs that I installed then.
The START is ever the same. Doesn't matter what I do, the "HP Start BOOT Screen" load, enter in a black screen and doesn't load the OS.
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Dec 3, 2009
got a Presario V2000 that will not boot whatsoever.
Upon pressing the power button, the machine starts up and displays the standard "Windows could not start properly" screen. Every option I choose, from the three Safe mode options, to the Last Known Good Config, to Start Windows Normally will not work.
I choose an option and everything goes smoothly, the Windows XP splash screen pops up & stays there for a few seconds, then goes blanks for a slightly longer length of time before a blue screen pops up. I can't remember the first few numbers, but the rest I'm pretty sure is accurate:
(a series of letters/numbers is here) (Registry File Failure)
The registry cannot load the file
SysCommandSysCom32ConfigSOFTware
or its log or alternate
It is corrupt, (something I cant remember), or not writable
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
Contact your system administrator or technical assistance.
.....and it pretty much repeats over and over in a continuous cycle like this until I power it off.
What I'm wondering is where exactly the problem lies? On the Hard Drive--where the drive itself needs to be replaced or the OS just wiped and reinstalled fresh.......or is this indicative of a hardware failure...which would mean this lappy is pretty much dead?
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Jun 3, 2009
I have a compaq nc6230 that was working fine over the years and suddenly when the power button is pressed, the unit powers on and displays the HP splash screen for about 30 seconds, then I get a Non system disk or disk error. The unit then shuts off its self.
I have swapped known working RAM and Hard drive with same results.
Also, when I enter in setup the hard drive diagnostic option is grayed out ( with or without hard drive installed ).
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Oct 16, 2009
HP Compaq 6735s
I had some Malware and ran Avast to remove it. Once I was done with that I decided just to back some things up,and do a clean install.
I chose to boot from Optionla bay, I assume that is the CD/DVD drive, then put the XP disk in but nothing. It tries to boot and goes to the black screen with choices, like start in safe mode and a few others, none of them work.
I hit "esc" to just boot from HDD like normal and it still will not boot.
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Apr 7, 2009
I live in the northeast. Unexpectedly we got a snow storm and I left my laptop in my backpack in my car for 6 hours. I didn't realize how cold it was going to get. I got laptop just now and it won't boot. It reaches the HP screen, the hard drive looks at as if its going to boot and after about 3 light flashes, everything stops working.
I press F10 to get in bios, it doesn't go in, it just hangs. I press ESC to get to the start up menu, same thing.
What did I damage here? My hard drive, motherboard?
I have important files here I need for my accounting classes until the semester ends.
I removed the battery to just use my plug in outlet to see if battery was damaged, same thing occurs.
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Dec 11, 2009
owner of DV5T 1009TX, i have a singular 320GB WD on this system, with dual boot enabled (WIN 7 and VHP) thing is i would like to triple boot this systm with an instant on OS (i know presto but it's a paid subscription and sadly does not allow me to access NAS/ battery profiles) so i was thinking of (and do have) a 8GB SSD 34 express slot flash drive (which has a USB 2.0 bus on te motherboard) to install a third OS Ubuntu
can't do any of the termainal , scripts based stuff
but i would need to know how it won't bother the MBR shared by M$ OS
i have the CD from cannonical featuring the latest 9.04 distribution of ubuntu
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Dec 7, 2009
My HP DV2310ca laptop wont boot. I've had this problem before. When I had my warranty, I took it back to the store where I purchased it and they told me that it was a simple problem where the HD was not connecting properly to the board, so they simply reconnected the HD back to the board and it started working again.
Yesterday while in class, I had that problem again. I opened up the HD case and reconnected the HP back to the board but the laptop still wont boot up. I screwed the HD back into the casing and made sure everything was nice and firm, but it still wont boot.
Another question I have is that the BIOS screen is not coming up either. Even though my HD might not be detected correctly, shouldnt the BIOS screen at least come up when I boot the laptop?
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Jan 2, 2009
I have an HP xt125 laptop that has a bad hard drive. I installed a new hard drive, but found that someone previously had monkeyed around with the cd drive, when i try to boot all I get is cruching and grinding. I installed a drive from a Toshiba laptop which is marked M/S (master/slave), where the original is marked CSEL(cable select). The bios won't recognize it and tries to boot from the hard drive. I have also tried a brand new DVD/RW drive (liteon DS-8A1p) with the same result. If I put the original cd drive in it tries to boot, but the drive is too damaged to spin the disc up to speed. I can't find any settings in the BIOS.
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Jul 6, 2009
My daughter has a Compaq Presario 2100. She said she got a virus! I don't think she did. But the problem is it will boot and not run! I ran a test for Hard Drive and it didn't show one. I also tried to repair from disk, it said it didn't have a hard drive. Disk is the reinstall XP. Is this a virus? I think it is hard drive gone bad.
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Feb 13, 2010
I was using my laptop normally when suddently it began to freeze. No blue screen, no reboot, just freeze under Win7.
I did hard reboot to Win XP, same problem. And I re-tried to reboot under Ubuntu, same problem, freeze...
So, I tried a memtest because at this moment I was expected a ram problem, but nothing, 3 pass OK, no error.
BUT after that, next reboot, even no Bios...
Black screen, no bip, JUST the hdd led blinking in red.
So I tried to change the hdd (by a one I'm absolutly sure it works)
Same problem.
I tried to boot on a cd as well, it doesn't work.
What the meaning of red blinking on hdd led? (Normally this led is always white)
Someone knows the errors codes of the HP hdx 18t?
I'm supected a cpu or motherboard failure.
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Jun 19, 2009
Well my HP dv6000 is still acting up.
Sometimes the laptop will not fully start/load. Meaning it never fully reaches the point when you can surf the net.
When it is not fully functional my mouse will not work when I click on IE or even the start button it can't activate them. It moves but does not activate any icons.
So I'll have to manually shut the lap top down by pushing the power button.
Next time it boots, It may not get to the point where the wireless is not up and running so I can't get IE to run it seems to fall short on booting to that point.
Then I have to hold the power button down to get it to reboot and start again.
Most all the time on the third reboot everything will work fine and run normally.
Time to reinstall my recovery discs and start clean ?
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Nov 12, 2009
I got a new 250GB hard drive for my HP Compaq 6820s hard drive a few weeks ago and now I can't boot from it as it's been infected with a virus which prevents it from booting. [I get a brief flash of the infamous "Blue Screen" before it returns to the HP screen.
Is there any way; software-wise that I can clean the hard drive of any viruses if I put it in an external caddy?
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Oct 6, 2009
I am trying to diagnose a friends laptop.
At first I thought perhaps the backlight went on it, but since then i've noticed a few other issues.
When I power on the laptop everything lights up and I can hear the DVD drive and HDD startup normally. But I get no HP splash screen and the monitor doesn't seem to power on either. Which I'm guessing means it's not posting, cause I even plugged it into an external monitor and it doesn't even pickup anything and goes to sleep mode.
After about 10-15 seconds it looks like the laptop reboots itself and starts up the DVD and HDD again but nothing...it just loops.
Is there something wrong with the motherboard ? I checked the monitor for a loose connection and the laptop in general for any internal loose connections and everything seemed fine.
My guess is the motherboard went and maybe the backlight at the same time...I have no idea...
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Mar 11, 2009
I had receive an old one compaq laptop evo n800c from my father, but I have a problem with this laptop. only for booting (cold or hot booting) it takes about 6 minute stuck in compaq logo in the beginning
I had enabled quick boot option in BIOS but it seem doesn't work because the time needed for booting does not change, such as before a quick boot is enabled
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Dec 15, 2009
I've got a Compaq Mini Netbook with a hard drive problem. On boot I'm getting "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt windowssystem32configsystem"
I want to boot the netbook with an XP boot disk and from there I can try and recover things. My problem is getting as far as C:
No CD drive so I've put the following files on a memory stick...Boot.iniNTLDRNTDETECT.COM
When I put the stick in and boot the netbook I can choose the boot device, select memory stick but am getting the message that no boot files exist on the drive.
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May 26, 2010
I've had my HP dv2200 notebook since Vista came out and yes I've had problems with it, but I've never had this one.
Since two days ago, every time I boot up, my CPU is running at 100%. This is from a full start-up or even out of hibernation mode. After 10-15 it dies down to 5-15% but occasionally goes back up to 100% even when idle.
Besides going to the usual sites I go to, I didn't download anything or visit any sites I'm not used to going to. There was a Windows Update I had in my task bar for several days that I finally installed, but it didn't require a restart.
My anti-virus software is avast! free version (latest version w/ definitions updated).
Under task manager there are two svshost.exe's that jump around from 30 to 50, and Firefox is at 50 or so when I try to run it (which takes 30 seconds to open during the 100% cpu). And when the CPU does die down to 5-15% it says that 'System Idle Process' is jumping up to 95 which doesn't add up.
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Apr 4, 2009
I have a spare PCI-e slot in my dv2700 (originally for evdo card) and I was wondering if its possible to get a mini-pcie ssd (like from a dell mini) and boot from that.
I am aware there won't be much speed increase, perhaps even a decrease but might be nice to be able to just use the hdd as secondary.
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Apr 9, 2009
I bought a Compaq v2000 a few years ago, has worked fine up until a couple weeks ago.
Now, it won't turn on. The battery (12 cell? extended version) has probably been dead for a while, but we always use AC power so no big deal there.
Currently, if you hit the power button, the amber lightning symbol on the front just flashes 3 or 4 times, then nothing.
Take the battery out, same thing. Take the AC adapter out, same thing.
My initial guess is battery or power supply are toast, but seems weird for it to just die like that (guess that's how it is with electronics though). If it is a total loss, no big deal, just need to get the hdd out and copy stuff off, the laptop probably needed replacing anyway...
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Feb 19, 2009
I'm looking at the Mi edition as it is cheaper. Would it be possible to partition the HD and dual boot XP Professional on the partition?
Also, are there any larger PATA HDDs to purchase?
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Feb 15, 2009
purchased a Compaq 6735s notebook. It came with Vista installed, but he wanted XP as that is what he is familiar with. Also wanted to have Vista to become familiar with that os. I partitioned the drive changed the SATA setting to IDE in CMOS and installed XP Home on the drive. On reboot it now defaults to XP but doesn't recognize the Network Controlller and several other "unknown devices" Of course I am unableto connect to the internet to download new drivers etc. So my questions are: What information is necessary to diagnose this problem? Where can I find that? (and) How can I choose between OS's at startup and avoid device compatibility issues?
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Oct 17, 2009
I have a hp tx2500z
When I turn on the power for computer there's a beeping noise coming from the hard drive I think and this message comes up in blue letters with a black background
" Boot Device Not Found
Please install an operating system on your hard disk.
Hard Drisk (XXX)
F2 System Diagnostics
When I run the system diagnostics for the Hard Disk Test, it says:
"Hard Disk Test Failed
Hard disk not exist"
What do I do? I went to the website but its suggesting that I basically may have to do a system recovery to the factory installed state...I have a lot of stuff I don't want to lose.
I also tried removing the hard drive and putting it back in, that didn't help either.
I called tech support and I still have my warrranty so I will be getting a Hp box to put my tablet in within a few days. But they told me I would most likely lose all the data I have saved.
Then I used a liveCD in hopes of backing up my harddrive but the liveCD won't even boot..unless im doing it wrong...( burn iso to CD, then load CD into laptop, and press f10? and/or turn on computer with CD inserted in and then let it load if it wants to?)
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Mar 31, 2009
any specific reason to that...cuz i had a single core processor and it would start vista faster but this is c2d and still slower than that at startup.....
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Feb 14, 2010
Trying to load XP on to the above mentioned machine. Getting BSOD within minutes of inserting the XP disc while drivers are still loading. Read through a huge thread on here about XP drivers but the seem to be talking about wanting to downgrade from Vista to XP.
Anyone know the procedure to dual boot instead of just downgrading?
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Jun 11, 2009
I just got a laptop from Craigslist that I liked, its a Compaq Presario R3000 and the speaker was messed up. So I dis-assembled it and like started to fix the speaker, and when I got done I started to put everything back into place...Well when I got it done I turned my laptop back on and it powers on and the fans kick on but nothing pops up on the screen and it doesn't boot...
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Apr 6, 2009
It's an HP ze 4904US running windows XP. Worked fine, then went to start one day and screen wouldn't come on. Having had this problem with my ze1000 series, I thought it could be screen bulb or inverter. But it isn't.
When I turn it on, I see the blue light all the way to the left on as well as the orange light by the battery symbol to the right.
I don't hear beeps.
I do hear the cd rom spin if a cd is loaded.
I do hear the fan for just a second occasionally. Not every time.
The screen is black and no faint xp logo or anything.
I feel like maybe it's not booting all the way.
If I press caps lock or num lock, the accent light doesnt come one. (maybe bad keyboard)
Here's what I've tested so far based on searches on this forum:
used reset button
removed battery and ac adapter and held power button 1 min.
One by one removed hardware to narrow problem
Re-seated everything and made sure connections were good
tried 2 other known working ac adapters.
hooked up to my PC monitor and still nothing. Monitor doesn't noticed anything attached. (why I believe it's not screen and just isnt booting.)
If it ends up being the motherboard, I do have a motherboard that works in my ze1000 laptop, but I don't know if it is compatible.
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