COMP wont go past HP screen at Begining! HELP

I have an HP dv6000. I was using the computer today and it was fine and
I did not download anything today. When I went to turn it on tonight it
goes to the HP screen where in the bottom right hand corner I can press
esc for boot order settings for F10 for setup. Than it shuts off and
does the same thing again. I try to press F8 but it's like it wont allow
it, I can press F10 to get into setup but when I press F8 there is a
loud beep. It seems like there is a light ticking coming from the bottom
part of the lap top, about every 5 seconds i hear a light tick. I tried
to reset to the default settings. take the battery out, and all of
that.
Any suggestions?????


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"Stan Starinski" <China@stealsUSJobsPatentsSoftwareMusicVideo> wrote in
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> It can't boot.

Who you talking to? Normal posters copy a snippit or the complete post in
which they are replying to so others can follow easily. I know this is
beyond your abilities so I suggest printing out this post and take it to
someone who can explain it to you. Allow 3 to 5 hours for the concept to
sink in to your head.

Just FYI.

> Something happened to booting drive, check what it shows in
> "Configure-->BootOrder".
>
> If all fails, can you find a bootable CD with Windows?

> If so, set boot order to first start with USB CDdrive, then enable USB
> booting in this same HP "screen" (what you call "screen" is actually BIOS
> where it's stuck now anc can't proceed from) and see if you can boot form
> that disk. If you can, than computer is OK, just the normal booting drive
> is not OK.
>
> Really easy to fix if you were here.

He isn't there and it's a good thing. He doesn't want the radio waves from
your tin foil hat to interfere with his computer.

> I can't see exactly what's up on yoiur "screen" from here.

I suggest turning up the brightness and contrast. If you can, turn your
computer towards his house and raise the antenna.


> Maybe you're looking at possibility of calling HP and/or bringing to a
> local repair shop.

Any open jobs still in your Global Empire? By the way, do you offer health
insurance? Would it be an HMO or a PPO? Please advise.

OK I dont really know what I Started here but I just want help gettin
my computer back up and running. I can't find a windows vista disk. I
there anywhere I can download it safely from the internet

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"BGBAY" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> OK I dont really know what I Started here but I just want help getting
> my computer back up and running. I can't find a windows vista disk. Is
> there anywhere I can download it safely from the internet?
>
>
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> BGBAY
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hope your warranty is up to date. Any ticking sound usually means hardware
failure. A Vista disk won't help you if that's the case. See if you can
boot to HP's recovery partition, which is F11 or F12.
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"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

"Stan Starinski" <China@stealsUSJobsPatentsSoftwareMusicVideo> wrote in
message news:#ISWxf#...
> I already suggested that (activating Recovery/Partition), but probably it
> didn't get posted because it went out from Google groups.
> I will now repost same from here.

You should include a snippit or the complete post you are replying to. I
know that is beyond your capabilities, so you should seek help in getting
someone to explain the concept to you. Remember, you claim to be an EE so
you must have at least a 4th grade education.

On 1/01/10, BGBAY posted:
> I have an HP dv6000. I was using the computer today and it was fine and
> I did not download anything today. When I went to turn it on tonight it
> goes to the HP screen where in the bottom right hand corner I can press
> esc for boot order settings for F10 for setup. Than it shuts off and
> does the same thing again. I try to press F8 but it's like it wont allow
> it, I can press F10 to get into setup but when I press F8 there is a
> loud beep. It seems like there is a light ticking coming from the bottom
> part of the lap top, about every 5 seconds i hear a light tick. I tried
> to reset to the default settings. take the battery out, and all of
> that.
> Any suggestions?????

Your hard drive seems to have died. The BIOS (what you call the HP
screen) can't read the drive; that clicking noise has in the past been
called the click of death (of the hard drive).

Your best bet is to try to read the drive in a second computer so you
can save anything of importance you put on it, and then start over with
a new computer... Or a least a new drive.

If you made the restore DVDs when you first got the computer, you can
recreate your OS on a new drive. If the recovery partition is still
available (perhaps F11 on startup of the BIOS) you can possibly
recreate the system on th old drive, but you would lose everything, so
you'd still need to offload everything of importance from the C:
partition before doing anything.

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