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HP Pavillion Notebook cannot enter BIOS.

Last answer on Oct 17, 2009 1:34:06 am BST One Love, on Jan 6, 2009 10:02:31 am GMT 
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Greetings!

I have a HP Pavillion ZT 3010 US notbook. I am unable to enter BIOS. The notebook freezes on the HP logo. When I press F10 (which is what usually gets me into BIOS) I see the message "Entering Setup" and she freezes. I've got the notebook for over 3years, recently installed Ubuntu with XP Pro dual boot system, using Grub.

I am unable to boot from CD or usb as well.

What I have done so far:
- Pulled out the ram, power, battery, hard drive and dvd drive.
- tested the hard drive using usb case on another machine. It works fine. There was a flash boot virus on it, which I removed
- I pulled out the CMOS battery

I tried starting the machine with any one or combos of the hardware mentioned above without success. The HP has onboard RAM which I have not touched. This will require me to take the machine apart to access.

What I am trying now is removing the CMOS battery and trying to start up without it. Let's see what happens!

Any help from someone who's been through this is appreciated.

One Love

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One Love, on Jan 6, 2009 10:23:45 am GMT
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Nope, removing CMOS battery does not help.

   
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Eric, on Aug 22, 2009 4:56:34 am BST

My computer has the same problem.
Have you figured out? Please give me a hint if you figured it out.
Any advise will be appreciated.
Thank you.

   
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xal, on Mar 23, 2009 8:36:31 pm GMT
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Ok i tried to dual boot my preinstalled windows vista x64 dv7-1020us with windows xp x64 before reading that i shoudlnt do so :(

i partitioned an area for xp pro 64bit edition and slipstreamed the intel matrix storage managerx64 and made a bootable cd.. i started my pc and booted from cd and the windows xp 64bit edition began to load the files, the installation continued and asked where i wanted to install xp and i chose the partition i made and chose yes to continue..

after copying the files from the cd the computer restarted. when it restarted there was an error "unable to load Operating system"... i powered off the pc and restarted again and booted from cd once more.. i then chose the area i made once again for the xp partition and chose to reformat to ntfs and copy files.. it reformated the partition and began to copy the files..
the computer proceeded to restart again but now it just hangs and sticks on the HP invent welcome screen..

if i try to get into the bios or boot menu or even recovery by presssing f9 f10 f11 etc nothing happens.. it just stays on that welcome screen.. i dont know what went wrong ..can someone help plz or has any ideas on what happened

   
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Nishant, on May 14, 2009 3:45:47 pm BST
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Hi,

I did the same thing but for 32-bit edition. Did u get any solution?

Please help.

   
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Eddy, on May 23, 2009 9:56:43 pm BST
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The same happenned to me, with a HP Pavilion DV4-1120, during a dual boot xp instalation. Anybody can give a hint?? It seems that the HD is the problem.

   
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NARESH, on Oct 11, 2009 5:12:59 pm BST

Could you solve this problem....exactly same thing happened with my hp dv5t-1000 when i tried to install xp over vista....pls let me know if you could solve this??

   
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ben, on May 24, 2009 12:35:39 pm BST
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Same here mine was dv5-1017r..i install vista ultimate and then partition then install xp after formating it restart then i got a black screen and freeze there..the problem is the hard drive when i took out the hard drive and let it boot by itself then i can go in the bios ect.. but when i plug the hard drive in it jus freeze.. any solution??

   
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ben, on May 24, 2009 1:30:01 pm BST
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Well...the problem solved now..luckily my nephew have a hp dv16 so i borrow his laptop put my hard drive in his machine delete all the partition i created earlier and then take the hard drive out put back to my laptop now it finally can boot up work like a charm now...

   
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 Herbert, on Oct 17, 2009 1:34:06 am BST

Guys, this is easy... this happens when vista can´t recovery from hibernation, u just have to remove one of the RAM memory and, voilà!!!

   
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jacob5622, on Jul 22, 2009 4:54:31 pm BST
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Never install an older Windows first. You'd have to wipe Vista first, install XP, then reinstall Vista. Installing XP second will mess up both boot files, rendering both OS's inoperable.

   
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jacob5622, on Jul 22, 2009 4:54:31 pm BST
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Never install an older Windows first. You'd have to wipe Vista first, install XP, then reinstall Vista. Installing XP second will mess up both boot files, rendering both OS's inoperable.

   
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