Comments on: How do I get my HP Laptop to get past the start up screen? http://cheaplaptopsandmore.com/how-do-i-get-my-hp-laptop-to-get-past-the-start-up-screen Find deals and discounts on many brands of laptops Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:19:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: nerdboy http://cheaplaptopsandmore.com/how-do-i-get-my-hp-laptop-to-get-past-the-start-up-screen/comment-page-1#comment-294 nerdboy Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:35:09 +0000 http://cheaplaptopsandmore.com/how-do-i-get-my-hp-laptop-to-get-past-the-start-up-screen#comment-294 Well its either the board or hard drive. But hard drives dont necessarily will freeze after the boot screen. Motherboards will. To verify if the hard drive is bad is to undo the harddrive caddy and remove it then boot the PC. It will boot up and then say hard disk 0 not found then it will mean the motherboard works but the hard drive was bad. BUT only try that if its NOT UNDER WARRANTY. If you still have a warranty let HP to all the grunt work and troubleshooting. Sounds to me the board is bad. Well its either the board or hard drive. But hard drives dont necessarily will freeze after the boot screen. Motherboards will. To verify if the hard drive is bad is to undo the harddrive caddy and remove it then boot the PC. It will boot up and then say hard disk 0 not found then it will mean the motherboard works but the hard drive was bad. BUT only try that if its NOT UNDER WARRANTY. If you still have a warranty let HP to all the grunt work and troubleshooting.

Sounds to me the board is bad.

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