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Answer» I have an HP pavilion dv 6000 with Vista. The system will not boot up to the operating system. I know the monitor works because I can use F8 to get into the BIOS. I tried using Linux puppy but it won't boot up either. Something I NOTICED is the touch pad(mouse) gets hot. On the bottom side of the laptop in the same location is the ram.Quote from: Little Marine on September 27, 2011, 02:36:20 PM ...Something I noticed is the touch pad(mouse) gets hot. On the bottom side of the laptop in the same location is the ram. Inspect the RAM. Something is clearly wrong. What happened to cause this? Did you spill something on the keyboard?I have a old laptop that roasts pretty well around the Ram compartment, but runs normal. In the BIOS make sure the boot oder is set up for CD-Rom first, then Hard Drive. Then try to boot off of a bootable Linux CD or the original Windows Vista CD is you have it. If it still DOESNT boot, try removing 1 of the 2 Ram sticks if it has 2, and see if you get better results. Otherwise it could be a system board issue with drive controller, although rare. To test for bad drive controller, you can try to boot off of a bootable USB thumb drive if your laptop supports USB boot! My Pentium 3 600Mhz Dell Laptop with 384MB Ram running XP Pro is a lap-warmer, but runs stable. It runs very warm center of the laptop by the Ram compartment even though the CPU is located in the upper right corner which also runs warm with the fan blowing almost constantly for running XP Pro on a system designed for Win 98/2000.There is a battery pack recall: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=1842155&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&task=&lang=en&cc=usI tried to boot from Linux puppy already with no results. This belongs to a friend of mind. It got hot at one time because they were using on there bed on a soft surface.Your story seems to have changed from the 1st post: 1. It's not your computer, it belongs to someone else. 2. It got hot 1 time, because the air vents were blocked. I suspect your friend has not told you everything, so you are unable to give us a complete story. All we really know is that it won't boot to the OS or from a CD. Change boot order so CD is 1st, HP calls it "Notebook Upgrade Bay". Yes my story did change. It wasn't meant to deceive anyone. I checked the boot order. It is the cd first. It will not boot from a Vista Cd. It has two ram sticks. I pulled those one at a time. It still has the same problem. I wonder if both sticks are bad. I have a bootable cd that does a memory check. It booted from that one. I am running a memory check now. The Vista CD is likely not a bootable CD or damaged in some way. Read the label on it very carefully, some are Restore CD's which require access through the BIOS. HP has changed the way they do this a number of times. ESC gets you to a BIOS menu or you can still go direct with F10, F2, etc. The latest BIOS don't look LIKE anything familiar. I can't even remember unless I'm sitting in front of it, except for this: They call the DVD/CD the "Notebook Upgrade Bay"? Also there is no delay, so it skips the screen where this is displayed. Finally found where it can be changed to 5sec, 10sec, etc. Once it was displayed for 5 sec, I guessed what it means. BTW,, BIOS screens are graphics, not text.I finally got the computer working. It wouldn't boot from linux puppy but I was able to install Ubunta 11.04. Thanks for all the helpQuote from: DaveLembke on September 27, 2011, 02:59:12 PM I have a old laptop that roasts pretty well around the Ram compartment, but runs normal. the way I read this, it sounds like your RAM is getting very hot, did you know that you can get a special heat spreader for memory modules. source: http://s.dealextreme.com/search/DDR2+heat+spreaderQuote from: luck of the irish on September 28, 2011, 04:52:12 PM the way I read this, it sounds like your RAM is getting very hot, did you know that you can get a special heat spreader for memory modules. source: http://s.dealextreme.com/search/DDR2+heat+spreader How would that fit in a laptop?sorry, wrong link: http://emea.apacer.com/en/products/Notebook_Memory.htm

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I have an HP pavilion dv 6000 with Vista. The system will not boot up to the operating system. I know the monitor works because I can use F8 to get into the BIOS. I tried using Linux puppy but it won't boot up either. Something I NOTICED is the touch pad(mouse) gets hot. On the bottom side of the laptop in the same location is the ram.Quote from: Little Marine on September 27, 2011, 02:36:20 PM

...Something I noticed is the touch pad(mouse) gets hot. On the bottom side of the laptop in the same location is the ram.

Inspect the RAM. Something is clearly wrong. What happened to cause this? Did you spill something on the keyboard?I have a old laptop that roasts pretty well around the Ram compartment, but runs normal. In the BIOS make sure the boot oder is set up for CD-Rom first, then Hard Drive. Then try to boot off of a bootable Linux CD or the original Windows Vista CD is you have it. If it still DOESNT boot, try removing 1 of the 2 Ram sticks if it has 2, and see if you get better results. Otherwise it could be a system board issue with drive controller, although rare. To test for bad drive controller, you can try to boot off of a bootable USB thumb drive if your laptop supports USB boot!

My Pentium 3 600Mhz Dell Laptop with 384MB Ram running XP Pro is a lap-warmer, but runs stable. It runs very warm center of the laptop by the Ram compartment even though the CPU is located in the upper right corner which also runs warm with the fan blowing almost constantly for running XP Pro on a system designed for Win 98/2000.There is a battery pack recall: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=1842155&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&task=&lang=en&cc=usI tried to boot from Linux puppy already with no results. This belongs to a friend of mind. It got hot at one time because they were using on there bed on a soft surface.Your story seems to have changed from the 1st post:
1. It's not your computer, it belongs to someone else.
2. It got hot 1 time, because the air vents were blocked.

I suspect your friend has not told you everything, so you are unable to give us a complete story. All we really know is that it won't boot to the OS or from a CD. Change boot order so CD is 1st, HP calls it "Notebook Upgrade Bay".
Yes my story did change. It wasn't meant to deceive anyone. I checked the boot order. It is the cd first. It will not boot from a Vista Cd. It has two ram sticks. I pulled those one at a time. It still has the same problem. I wonder if both sticks are bad. I have a bootable cd that does a memory check. It booted from that one. I am running a memory check now. The Vista CD is likely not a bootable CD or damaged in some way. Read the label on it very carefully, some are Restore CD's which require access through the BIOS. HP has changed the way they do this a number of times. ESC gets you to a BIOS menu or you can still go direct with F10, F2, etc. The latest BIOS don't look LIKE anything familiar. I can't even remember unless I'm sitting in front of it, except for this: They call the DVD/CD the "Notebook Upgrade Bay"? Also there is no delay, so it skips the screen where this is displayed. Finally found where it can be changed to 5sec, 10sec, etc. Once it was displayed for 5 sec, I guessed what it means. BTW,, BIOS screens are graphics, not text.I finally got the computer working. It wouldn't boot from linux puppy but I was able to install Ubunta 11.04.
Thanks for all the helpQuote from: DaveLembke on September 27, 2011, 02:59:12 PM

I have a old laptop that roasts pretty well around the Ram compartment, but runs normal.

the way I read this, it sounds like your RAM is getting very hot, did you know that you can get a special heat spreader for memory modules.

source:
http://s.dealextreme.com/search/DDR2+heat+spreaderQuote from: luck of the irish on September 28, 2011, 04:52:12 PM

the way I read this, it sounds like your RAM is getting very hot, did you know that you can get a special heat spreader for memory modules.

source:
http://s.dealextreme.com/search/DDR2+heat+spreader

How would that fit in a laptop?sorry, wrong link:

http://emea.apacer.com/en/products/Notebook_Memory.htm

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