my laptop doesn't boot even the cd-rom is disabled when the power is turning on?
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Keep pressing F2 or delete when the laptop is booting ( Then you should be able to get into the bios to enable the cd rom etc ) I suggest you enable the optimal defaults and then put the cd rom drive as the first boot device in order to install the operating system. Then after it is installed set the first boot device back to the hard drive ( IDE 0 ) or whatever the bios refers to the hard drive as.
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u need to reboot usin ur recovery cd that came with ur computer
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Maybe the CD is not a BOOTABLE CD. It has to be for it to work, but you can also use a start-up disk (Win98) if have any,.....or search and download it off the internet. during the booting, select start with CD-ROM support.
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I need more info.\nDo you ever see the Windows logo? If so then there is probably something wrong w/ the windows files. Trying tapping F8 during bootup and select "safe mode"\n\nDo you just get the HP logo? Then it's something hardware related. And that could be almost anything. Did you change anything else besides the hard drive?\nThis board also seems pretty old, so it might just be dead.
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While you start your computer up, press F10 or F12(i forget wich one) and do a system recovery.
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This can lead to two things.\n\n1.  Power supply is gone\n2.  BIOS is gone
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Did you boot from the DVD.  If you tried it and that didn't work you can ignore my response.  But, Boot the laptop, pop the DVD in and restart, the PC should then boot with the DVD and you will be able to restore windows.  If it isn't set to boot from the DVD then you will have to get into the BIOS and set the DVD drive as the first boot drive.  To get into your BIOS you will have to watch the first splash screen which will say something like "to enter configuration press Delete" or something similar so do that and you will be able to set your DVD drive as the first boot device.  This is assuming of course that it is an actual DVD disc and that the drive on your laptop is a DVD drive.  If it is just a CD drive then it won't ready DVDs.  Sorry, I had to say that, I have had people put DVDs in CD drives and they expected them to be readable.
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Try booting it into safe mode by pressing F8 when the computer starts. If that doesnt work your probably out of luck since this handles the login for windows.
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Corrupt boot file, if you are running XP then try using repair on it by booting from CD.
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Make a bootable cd rom and see if it boots on that.\n\nYou can even try a non-Windows OS (gasp!)\n\nLastly you could try to flash the Bios
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Check the power supply cable (the one with the 4 pins).  It sounds like it just isn't getting any power.  Even if there's something wrong with the jumper settings or the I/O interface, it should at least spin up.
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Go to ur BIOS and do it setting to automatic. Most probably it the BIOS's Setting that dosent show a CD - ROM
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Insert the XP CD then boot from CD- \nselect this from the BIOS, \nthen select boot with CDROM support. \nTry running in SAFE mode to see any problems.\n\n\nThis is just for you to be able to load windows
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you need a windows disc. something has happened to you system files on the HD, it might jsut be a cable came out though, have a check when the computer is turned off.
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do a cold boot (switch off completely, count 10 for the hard disk to stop, then switch on again)\n\nif that dont fix it have you just installed new software\n\nif you aint then do a system restore (Start/help and support/pick a task/system restore)
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are you powering up with your battery alone, or are you plugged into an outlet?\n\nhow old is your computer? is it worth spending money to fix it by going to a computer repair shop?  are your files very valuable?
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Helper123 is right!...\n\nYou must switch your boot system from HDD to CD...