Bad Locksum BIOS CD_Rom not found when I try to

Ginko

• 19396 Answers
• Posted on Mar 04, 2008

SOURCE: Bios could not be loaded error code

Sure , you need to change the battery in your motherboard. Often it looks like a silver coin. What happens is that your bios setting are reset to default each time you restart PC, before updating bios (that is the solution from hp that you are trying), change the battery.

regards

SOURCE: Compaq Presario SR1920NX will not enter boot process

From your description, the BIOS is not recognizing any drives or does not hand off from BIOS to a bootable drive.

Start off by simplifying the system down to keyboard monitor and power cable. Remove *everything* else.

If no boot, unplug power cable, monitor and keyboard. Hold power button in with no power for 15 seconds. This may clear a corrupt BIOS. Reconnect and see if it boots.

If no boot, unplug power again and on the power supply somewhere near where you plug in the power cord look for a small recessed voltage selector. Flip it to 250 then flip back to 115 (these are approximate numbers and may be slightly different on your system). Your system may not even have a voltage selector switch.

If still not booting or no drives are being recognized, we can open the case if you feel comfortable with that.

I have talked a grandmother through replacing a mother board over the phone so we can do this if you want to give it a shot.

Honest1abe

SOURCE: Cant install recovery disks after a hard drive reformat!

the recovery disk is designed to repair or restore a system to its previous factory condition and is not a full installation. the formating of your hdd would have erased all the data required for this process to be completed. you can try a recovery utility that may be able to help you at this link. the disk might not have been saved in an .iso format to tell the computer to run it before starting an OS. if this disk is recognized and runs on your system then you will need to attempt a recovery, which is unlikely since the drive has allready been formated many necessary system files may not be able to be restored. at this point a complete new install will be necessary.
Good Luck!

SOURCE: Hard Drive Error during system recovery

You need to run a hard drive diagnostic disk in dos,(before windows starts) First check with HP, You can also use a program called HDD Regenerator 1.51. This will check the drive for bad sectors, and then you can try and repair them. This way you might
be able to see some of the data you want. If the sectors that where
repaired had the operating system on them, you should just get a new drive,(if not under warranty) then after you have a new OS installed on the new drive, you can plug in the old drive and see what you can recover.

SOURCE: How to get to recovery partition when booting up HP Pavillion MX

The same problem happened to me today on my hp Pavillion a1600n.
Try pressing the F10 key as the computer is powering on. This may allow the computer to access the recovery partition on the hard disk. If you get that far, then you can restore the user partition from the recovery partition. If it is like the a1600n, then you can do a restore of all the content and either leave your own data files intact, or, have it reformat the user partition and then you WILL have to restore all the data files. In either case, you will likely need to reinstall any applications that were added AFTER you got the PC. (Or, in my case, some apps were still kinda working...).

If F10 does not work, you may be able to create a PC Recovery Tools CD from a different hp XP machine, and boot that CD. During part of that boot up process you may get the opportunity to run the Recovery program.

Hope that helps!