hi,
I have an HP pavilion a6040n. It has Vista. This morning it worked fine, I left it on for a few hours. When I came back it was frozen. The mouse arrow would not move. Tried CTRL/ALT/DEL and nothing happened so I shut it down with the power BUTTON. When I tried to turn it back on it keeps getting stuck on the very first screen which is black and lists the video card info (I think) it says VERTO GEforce...etc. Nothing I do will start it.

I tried running my RECOVERY disc and my "bootable system HARDWARE disc" but nothing. I think it is that windows will not start right? What can I do?

THANKS for any ideas
MicheleClear the CMOS - Small silver battery inside on the MOBO, remove it for a min or so. Then replace and turn on the machine. Any difference?I took out and replaced the only thing that resembled a battery and then when I turned it on it went to blue HP screen and system recovery was at the bottom=f11 so I pressed that and now it is running some kind of test. OK it finished...and it passed
after the test it ASKED for the recovery disc and it restarted, it says "windows is loading files" FIXED!! Do you know what happened in the first place?
thank you so much!Just a slight problem in the BIOS, I get it with my old Sony VAIO all the time.