disassemble the laptop, and get try taking out the bios battery(not the laptop battery, the BIOS battery, looks like a watch battery.). Leave it out for a few hours, and while you're at it try this. Look around (carefully) inside the case for some jumper switches near a bios chip or the battery. If you do, and if there are more then 2, don't touch them yet. After 2 hours have passed, put the battery back in, reassemble, and try turning on.
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posted on Jun 13, 2008
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hank you for your quick response. Yes, it is the BIOS Password.
I have HP Notebook DV 6000 (120Gigs / 1 GB / Wireless / DVD), which came with Vista Home Premium pre...
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I have HP Notebook DV 6000 (120Gigs / 1 GB / Wireless / DVD), which came with Vista Home Premium pre loaded. Of late the OS has corrupted and this is what happens - 1 - I power it up for booting and it shows me the whole list of options (Safe Boot, Normal Boot, Last good etc.) 2 - No matter which option I take, It starts to load and then suddenly the BSOD appears. 3 - The Notebook Reboots itself I have lost the recovery DVD for vista and when I tried to install Win XP Prof from the bootable CD, it starts to install and then suddenly it says "Setup did not find any hard disk on your system". Same with Windows 98SE !!! I am out of my wits, Is it a MBR related problem? or a Virus? Maybe Vista has some File System which can not be acessed by either XP or 98SE. Pls help... Thanks in advance, Manjit