Solve : Blue boot screen sticks?

1.	Solve : Blue boot screen sticks?
Answer» Soppy if this is already covered. I searched the topics and didn't find it. I might not be calling it right. I have an HP Pavillion with Windows XP, SP2 Sometimes when it restarts, it gets stuck on the blue boot screen (F1 for setup, F10 for recovery) If you shut off & restart like 15 TIMES it will FINALLY start windows. It seems to go through the boot process but then freeze. I can hear the floppy boot and the light comes on. I tried changing the boot order, and booting with everything but the monitor disconnected with no success. When it first goes to the sreen I can get into setup about 1/2 the time, the other 1/2 it says entering setup, but just sits there. I'm afraid that one time it's just never gonna come back. Thank you for any input.Do you hear any beeps? How old is your computer? Try to reset the BIOS to its fail safe or default settings.computer is about 1 yr old, maybe a couple months more. A 2.7 ghz celeron. setting to default settings had no effect. It beeps once when screen comes up, then the sound which I'm assuming is the floppy booting since it does it when the light is on. Both are noises that it has always made during normal boot.Does the POST succeed and does the problem start when Windows loads?POST? You'll have to explain. Sorry. Quote POST? You'll have to explain. Sorry. The post is black screen with the white letters (or the mainboard/PC brand screen) that appears before Windows loads.POST = Power On Self Test, to check all the individual components for basic functionalityNo POST, whether boot works or not. I remember seeing it in the past. Today the monitor wouldn't come out of sleep mode. Restarted an same prob. After about 12-15 tries, it booted up. I defragged last night, Ive run adaware and spybot. Ran virus scan too. I'm gonna back-up again and try an earlier restore point. Don't know what else to do. Dont wanna recover if I can avoid it.So when you turn on the PC, absolutely nothing is seen on the monitor? Do you hear any beeps?The list below covers most makes of hard drive diagnostic software to test the harddrive..... http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hdd/support/utilities/utilities_index. html http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_home.jsp Or this one: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html Rusty: Are you able to think of any recent changes (even as much as a week ago) that were made? * A new program installed? * A new expansion card added? * A virus detected? * A power outage or brown out? * An angry room mate drop kicking your computer across the room? Anything like that? Doc Looks like another AWOP (absent without posting)! Quote Looks like another AWOP (absent without posting)! Did he SLANDER Raptor? If so, we'll need to get him an alibi. Sorry I couldn't get back. Well, now the computer wont go past the blue sceen, ever. If I f1 into BIOS, I can enable the boot time diagnostic screen. Then I get the POST. It lists the system info, the hard drive, and my two cd drives (cd-rw and dvd-rom) then the screen blacks out and nothing else. I can't F10 into system recovery either, norcan I get safe mode. Again, sory I couldn't get back, I'm running on laptop now. Thank for any help. RustyI also downloaded a boot disk and tried to boot from CD, but no go. It seems to try to read from it, but nothing happens. If anyone needs more info, ASK away. By the way, HP's fix is to send the machine out to them for service. They call that help! Thanks Rusty

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Soppy if this is already covered. I searched the topics and didn't find it. I might not be calling it right.

I have an HP Pavillion with Windows XP, SP2

Sometimes when it restarts, it gets stuck on the blue boot screen (F1 for setup, F10 for recovery)
If you shut off & restart like 15 TIMES it will FINALLY start windows.

It seems to go through the boot process but then freeze. I can hear the floppy boot and the light comes on. I tried changing the boot order, and booting with everything but the monitor disconnected with no success.

When it first goes to the sreen I can get into setup about 1/2 the time, the other 1/2 it says entering setup, but just sits there.

I'm afraid that one time it's just never gonna come back.
Thank you for any input.Do you hear any beeps?

How old is your computer?

Try to reset the BIOS to its fail safe or default settings.computer is about 1 yr old, maybe a couple months more. A 2.7 ghz celeron.

setting to default settings had no effect.

It beeps once when screen comes up, then the sound which I'm assuming is the floppy booting since it does it when the light is on. Both are noises that it has always made during normal boot.Does the POST succeed and does the problem start when Windows loads?POST? You'll have to explain. Sorry. Quote

POST? You'll have to explain. Sorry.

The post is black screen with the white letters (or the mainboard/PC brand screen) that appears before Windows loads.POST = Power On Self Test, to check all the individual components for basic functionalityNo POST, whether boot works or not. I remember seeing it in the past.
Today the monitor wouldn't come out of sleep mode. Restarted an same prob. After about 12-15 tries, it booted up.

I defragged last night, Ive run adaware and spybot. Ran virus scan too. I'm gonna back-up again and try an earlier restore point. Don't know what else to do. Dont wanna recover if I can avoid it.So when you turn on the PC, absolutely nothing is seen on the monitor?

Do you hear any beeps?The list below covers most makes of hard drive diagnostic software to test the harddrive.....

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hdd/support/utilities/utilities_index. html
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_home.jsp

Or this one:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
Rusty:

Are you able to think of any recent changes (even as much as a week ago) that were made?

* A new program installed?

* A new expansion card added?

* A virus detected?

* A power outage or brown out?

* An angry room mate drop kicking your computer across the room?

Anything like that?

Doc

Looks like another AWOP (absent without posting)!
Quote

Looks like another AWOP (absent without posting)!

Did he SLANDER Raptor? If so, we'll need to get him an alibi. Sorry I couldn't get back. Well, now the computer wont go past the blue sceen, ever. If I f1 into BIOS, I can enable the boot time diagnostic screen. Then I get the POST. It lists the system info, the hard drive, and my two cd drives (cd-rw and dvd-rom) then the screen blacks out and nothing else.

I can't F10 into system recovery either, norcan I get safe mode.

Again, sory I couldn't get back, I'm running on laptop now. Thank for any help.
RustyI also downloaded a boot disk and tried to boot from CD, but no go. It seems to try to read from it, but nothing happens.

If anyone needs more info, ASK away. By the way, HP's fix is to send the machine out to them for service. They call that help!

Thanks
Rusty

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