I hear the fan running; when ctrl, alt, del is pressed: Compaq press ESC to change boot order press F2 to enter setup, F12 to boot from LAN, then back to blank with fan running Nothing happens when I press 'F2' or 'F12' except beeping when they're held down. I've put the system restore disk in and nothing happens. It's my father-in laws and he has a 'Windows 7 Upgrade Program,' and nothing happened there either. He thinks it needs a new motherboard. I'lll be starting school for 'Network Administration' in a few months. I'd like to get this laptop running before then to learn a little beforehand. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong or what I can do?
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SOURCE: Another "Won't Boot"
My guess is a faulty processor. I had to replace my motherboard a while back. Yesterday I was really proud because I got the machine up and running, proving, I thought, that I had successfully took it apart and put it back together. It had been out of commission for a while, so when I shut it down, it asked if I wanted to do windows xp auto updates.
This morning I got the exact same issue you have, so I opened her back up and noticed that I forgot to plug the CPU fan back into it's socket. So much for feeling awesome.
My guess is that while doing updates it overheated and died, but I didn't notice because I stopped paying attn to it because it was turning itself off. I don't think it's a Windows thing because when I try to put a boot cd into the computer, it still won't read.
Dunno what to say... I'll definitely post back here after I replace the cpu to see if I find an answer.
SOURCE: HP 1000 mini-netbook bootmgr compressed--no cd/dvd hard drive--
Why all these clueless suggestions? I came here looking for help, but it appears I'll be solving my own problem and lend a hand. First attach something bootable via USB like you already know. Change boot order and boot from some kind of XP install disk. That's where I'm at right now. I'm now in the recovery console which gives me a command line. I had JUST READ somewhere the comand line commands to restore the boot manager that we just compressed.
Hold on....OK ! Problem fixed.
Step by step:
1)Get external CD reader and plug into USB
2)Boot Mini hit F10 or F12, whatever it says to change boot order
3)Reboot and you'll see you now have option to change boot order on bootup.
4)Boot to some kind of XP start disk(stupid me never even looked at HP's recovery disk yet - I didn't want to go there!)
5)Let the startup program run til it stops asking you to select an option, and hit R for recovery console
6)You'll want option 1 for c:/windows and type your password when asked
6)type fixboot then enter
7)It will happily inform you that your boot record is repaired
There may be some warnings or statements in between. You're desperate - agree to whatever they say! ;-)
8)reboot
9)Don't worry, be happy
If you can't stand that you now have that message booting up every time and it looks weird, RIGHT click my computer, properties, advanced, startup and recovery settings, and edit ....change default operating system from ** to Microsoft Windows XPHome etc."
click edit and for good measure delete where it has WINDOWS="" as an operating system. Don't mess with this if you're not sure.
10)Now be happy!
SOURCE: "A disk read error has occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."
try this. load defaults on bios. retry boot from xp cd. on windows setup. choose recovery console. on dos mode. choose OS (XP). Run CHKDSK /R.
SOURCE: My V2000 won't boot. It starts to power up, beeps
probably keyboard connector is loose so, no imput from keyboard is coming in so it halts bootup. please check the connector [opening of a computer is requied probably]
SOURCE: HP Pavilion ze2308wm won't boot up
Have you tried an external keyboard, either PS2 or USB depending on what ports are available?
Acer: - Ctrl+Alt+Esc
ALR PC: (F2) or (Ctrl)(Alt)Esc)
AMI BIOS: (Del), (F1) or (F2)
AST, Advantage, Award, Tandon: - Ctrl + Alt + Esc
Award BIOS: (Del) or (Ctrl)(Alt)(Esc)
The BIOS information is typically found at or near the top of the POST screen for a very short time
ALR PC non / PCI = CTRL+ALT+ESC
AMD advanced micro devices=BIOS = DEL
Award BIOS = DEL
Dtk Datatech Enterprises Co. BIOS = ESC
Phoenix BIOS = CTRL+ALT+S
Phoenix BIOS = CTRL+ALT+INS
Restart your computer
during the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key usually Delete or F2 to enter setup
this will differ depending on which bios you have
Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS
if you have changed any of the BIOS settings by mistake
you can load failsafe or optimised defaults using the arrow keys you can after you make any changes in BIOS press Esc then press the F10 button save to cmos to restart
CMOS is an on-board semiconductor chip powered by a CMOS battery inside computers that stores information such as the system time and date and the system hardware settings for your computer..
hope this helps
The BIOS information is typically found at or near the top of the POST screen
ALR PC non / PCI = CTRL+ALT+ESC
AMD advanced micro devices=BIOS = DEL
Award BIOS = DEL
Dtk Datatech Enterprises Co. BIOS = ESC
Phoenix BIOS = CTRL+ALT+S
Phoenix BIOS = CTRL+ALT+INS
Restart your computer
during the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key usually delete or F2 to enter setup
this will differ depending on which bios you have
Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS
if you have changed any of the BIOS settings by mistake
you can load failsafe or optimised defaults using the arrow keys you can after you make any changes in BIOS press Esc then press the F10 button save to cmos to restart
hope this helps
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Chris's answer sounded good, but yesterday when I was trying to install windows 7, the instructions showed up on the screen, so it doesn't seem to be a screen problem.
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