HP Pavillion Notebook cannot enter BIOS.

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One Love - 6 Jan 2009 à 05:02
eddiexpenn Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday 26 June 2013 Status Member Last seen 16 July 2013 - 16 Jul 2013 à 16:27
Greetings!

I have a HP Pavillion ZT 3010 US notbook. I am unable to enter BIOS. The notebook freezes on the HP logo. When I press F10 (which is what usually gets me into BIOS) I see the message "Entering Setup" and she freezes. I've got the notebook for over 3years, recently installed Ubuntu with XP Pro dual boot system, using Grub.

I am unable to boot from CD or usb as well.

What I have done so far:
- Pulled out the ram, power, battery, hard drive and dvd drive.
- tested the hard drive using usb case on another machine. It works fine. There was a flash boot virus on it, which I removed
- I pulled out the CMOS battery

I tried starting the machine with any one or combos of the hardware mentioned above without success. The HP has onboard RAM which I have not touched. This will require me to take the machine apart to access.

What I am trying now is removing the CMOS battery and trying to start up without it. Let's see what happens!

Any help from someone who's been through this is appreciated.

One Love
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well...the problem solved now..luckily my nephew have a hp dv16 so I borrow his laptop put my hard drive in his machine delete all the partition I created earlier and then take the hard drive out put back to my laptop now it finally can boot up work like a charm now...
Guys, this is easy... this happens when vista can´t recovery from hibernation, u just have to remove one of the RAM memory and, voilà!!!
Knievel > Herbert
27 Nov 2009 à 12:50
Thx very much, helped to plug out the RAM one after another. The boot didn't freeze anymore and the RAM could be replugged. System runnin again