Novice2000
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Try reflashing the bios if its possible.
He tried that, it didn't do any good. It flashed successfully, but that didn't make a difference. He even did it twice, both times successfully. Still didn't do any good.
Try reflashing the bios if its possible.
2. On some other computer with the HP USB disk storage format tool 2.1.8 format your USB stick completely using the FAT32 file system and put the Windows 98 system files on it and click START to start the format and copying DOS files process...
He tried that, it didn't do any good. It flashed successfully, but that didn't make a difference. He even did it twice, both times successfully. Still didn't do any good.
Just do the HDD format as I explained before and then install Windows XP from the USB stick.If you dont know how to put XP on the USB stick so you can install them from it,tell me and through the Team Viewer on some other computer I can do it for you.
Just do the HDD format as I explained before and then install Windows XP from the USB stick.If you dont know how to put XP on the USB stick so you can install them from it,tell me and through the Team Viewer on some other computer I can do it for you.
Then it sounds like he'll have to send it in to get repaired.
It's not gonna matter if the bios is shot, it won't boot up later anyway.
done deal if the bios update goes wrong.
Agreed. Try taking the hard drive out of the laptop and boot up and see what happens. If it goes farther than what it has, then you have a faulty hard drive. Another option would be to download the drive makers disk diagnostic utility and put the hard drive in another system to test it.
Well, If i had to put money on it, I would say the bios is bad. See if its possible to put the old bios back on, do you remember what version was on there? You can't downgrade the bios on some models however.
What is the model number of the laptop? Why was the bios updated to begin with?