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Simple envy
Could be a number of things... the mboard is a possibility.
It could also be the power supply or even a bad mem chip. You're on borrowed time with it. It could go away permanently any time. HPs are generally pretty reliable from my experience. Sounds like it might have been abused before you got it. "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... It's a hard life for any computer aboard a vessel in salt water. I love my HP pavilion. It is a great computer except it has a bad mother board or temp sensor or something that makes the hard drive not 'seen' by the computer about half the time. It started about two weeks ago. It boots up normally about fifty percent of the time and runs and never crashes but about half the other times it refuses to boot and only shows a BIOS screen that asks which boot device to use. When the hard drive is chosen and enter is hit it just goes back to the same old BIOS screen asking which boot device to use. Then when left for a couple hours or over night it boots up normally or not. depending oh how it feels. It's weird! I'm not an expert but I'm convinced the motherboard is bad or a socket is not making a decent connection depending on temp and humidity. HP will fix it for free because it is still in warranty and I have the receipt and have scanned it and sent it to them in a giant tif file that they can examine with a magnifier till they are satisfied. I think what is bugging them is I bought it from Circuit City as an out of the box unit that somebody else returned but the receipt says it carries the full year warranty nonetheless. S.Simon |
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