I have a compaq presario cq56 that flashes between the red compaq start up screen and the black screen that the cursor appears in top left corner it flashes back and forth between these 2 screens and wont boot up and i can not open f11 system restore,i can open f10 boot order, f1 system info,and f2 startup check ,in f2 all test pass,f8 wont work either .help?
Open f10 go to diagnostics 10008 bios code means the hard drive is fried new one for cq 60 160gb hard drive 90 dollars but might as well upgrade 500gb only 115 i would think the cq 56 should be about the same price
SOURCE: When starting my DV4000 - the screen is dark other than a cursor in the left corner.
That error indicates a hard drive problem. You probably have to replace the hard drive.
SOURCE: Dell Inspiron 1501 black screen
i think your system's files is corrupted due to improper shut down or sudden lost of system power.so better do fresh installation of operating system or do recovery by booting up windows xp from cd rom.
SOURCE: New HDD inserted into Pavilion ZD7000 - will not boot from XP CD
Try your old HDD in it and see if that works. If it does work then nothing is damaged except your DVD drive/Controller. Try putting the new HDD in another computer, installing windows then putting it back in the HP. If all else fails then flash the bios with an updated image and see if that rectifies the problem.
SOURCE: won't boot
I had this too. It kept happening after I would install updates. I think the problem turned out to being that my harddrive (only 4GB) had run out of space.
The way I ended up fixing it was to turn the power off by holding down the button, turn it back on and hold the F9 key. This allowed me to "restore factory defaults" and it booted up again. I lost all the changes I had made, so if you had settings saved, this may not be your best option.
If it is a harddrive space issues, I would recommend getting to the console (CNTRL+ALT+T) and then typing "sudo synaptic" to get to the package manager. You can then remove packages that you no longer need or want to use (like the kids games, possibly Skype). This stuff is a little advanced, so if you're not sure of what you're doing, you may end up changing something you didn't mean to and needing to start back over again by restoring defaults.
SOURCE: I have Hp Dv6700 laptop,
may be the problem is in your memory, try to remove your memory (RAM), it located in a back cover of your laptop, you need to open the screw first, try to clean up your memory with a pencil eraser, if it not help try to replace with a new ram.
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