HP Pavilion ze4115 Notebook Logo
Shinobu Hika Posted on Jun 03, 2007

Won't boot. I have a HP Pavilion ze4115 laptop and yesterday it stopped booting up. When I turn it on it goes to the HP logo screen and doesn't do anything 5secs after being turned on and stays at the logo screen. I've also tried pushing escape and any of the other buttons that it has at the bottem of the screen and it would act like it was going to do something but would not load anything. My laptop is about 5years old so my dad suggested the CMOS battery has died or maybe it needs to be resetted...only thing is where is the CMOS battery at? Is it something I could fix or would I have to take it to a professional to have repaired? I've checked all areas I could without pulling it apart and I've found nothing. I've even reseated ram chips and seem to still have no luck.

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Hello Lunartiger, i have one suggestion. My 4 year old toshiba satellite has had the same problem (almost.....). It would not boot or format. the hard drive's running sound was weird. It would do tic-tic-tic... instead of the normal chirrrrrrr.... I thought the hard drive was broken . So i went to a computer shop and replaced its original toshiba hard drive with a cheap refurbished Fujitsu hard drive. It's been working well(maybe faster) since then. If your hard drive sounds different then before, consider buying a new one. search the web for your laptop's motherboard to see where the CMOS bettery is. I used irisvista.com for my laptop but they might not have hp laptops there

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