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Damn Hewlett Packard (ENDLESS REBOOT LOOP)

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[v]@bans

Limp Gawd
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Ok, I need some help on this damn computer. I have a HP Pavillion 761n that someone gave me for the simple reason they can't get it to run properly. So they just ditched it and gave it to me. Who am I to say no, i'll make it a CS server or something.

ANYWAY! The computer seems to be stuck in an endless rebooting loop. Windows XP attempts to start up but informs me that it didn't start up properly and what options do I want?

Of course I choose safe mode but it tries to start up but then reboots. If I try to start it normally, it tries then reboots. My first suspicision was the harddrive but I swapped the HD into a different computer, and it started up fine. I did notice that the previous owner added a firewire card, and USB card they didn't need. The errror indicated that it could be because of a hardware change, but that doesn't really make sense because I should have gotten the same error when I swaped it into a completely different system.

So a fresh install I do think is in order, but I can't get the computer to start off of the CD. I called HP to see if they could tell me how, but they just told me the computer was out of warrenty and I'd have to pay $40 for them to even give me that information. Of course I refused to pay $40 for them to tell me how to start the computer from a CD only so I could fix it.

So does anyone have any input on how I can start this computer for either the CD rom or DVD Rom drive? I put the XP disc in both and nothing, I get the same error of the endless reboot loop. Am I dianosing this problem incorrectly? Any help would be great, thanks..
 
It sounds like either the motherboard died, or you have some bad ram. The $40 you were quoted was for a restore CD for an older machine....not just for simple info. Any chance you can get it to boot far enough to run Memtest?
 
IIRC, ctrl f2 or f11 or somehting like that is the bios. There you'll find the ability to boot off of the cd.
 
djnes said:
It sounds like either the motherboard died, or you have some bad ram. The $40 you were quoted was for a restore CD for an older machine....not just for simple info. Any chance you can get it to boot far enough to run Memtest?
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Had this problem on a machine recently, it wasn't a dead part, as much as it was HP's utilities fucking up part of the windows boot process. Format/reinstall, and boom, we're back in business.
 
lopoetve said:
Had this problem on a machine recently, it wasn't a dead part, as much as it was HP's utilities fucking up part of the windows boot process. Format/reinstall, and boom, we're back in business.
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Oh yeah....are old "hidden partition crap". I remember them and their uselessness.
 
djnes said:
It sounds like either the motherboard died, or you have some bad ram. The $40 you were quoted was for a restore CD for an older machine....not just for simple info. Any chance you can get it to boot far enough to run Memtest?
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not at all. I told them I had a Restore CD. They told me I had 1 of 2 options

pay $40 for this one time Technical support
or
Pay $75 to extend the warrenty for 1 year.

So how do get into the bios the start from the CD?

No I haven't run memtest becuase I can't boot from the CD
 
[v]@bans said:
not at all. I told them I had a Restore CD. They told me I had 1 of 2 options

pay $40 for this one time Technical support
or
Pay $75 to extend the warrenty for 1 year.

So how do get into the bios the start from the CD?

No I haven't run memtest becuase I can't boot from the CD
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Fuck around with keys at boot till you get into the bios. (F keys are a good guess, as are ctrl, del, etc, and combinations). Or google it to find out how. Then set the boot order.
 
No dice. I think you may be correct in assuming it's the MB.. now it doesn't even bring up the windows error at this point. and I tried to google it, and I came here becuase I know you guys always have a reasonable answer..
 
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