Comments on: HP Will Not Boot

By: Kiho Chung

Kiho Chung — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:27:38 +0000

My computer is HP Pavilion a6300f. Recently there was hard disk failure. I replaced the hard disk. I finished all system recovery process and the computer ran normally a few times. Whenever the system updates, the computer won’t restart. First few times, if I turn on computer next day or a quite hours later it starts normally. But now it completely dead. There is no BIOS message at all. If I turn on power button, it sounds long one beeps followed by high frequency pitching sound( a couple seconds). Amber light is flashing and all fans run including CPU fan. I even changed back to old hard disk drive but every thing is same. Please help.
Thank you very much.

By: David Purcell

David Purcell — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:39:37 +0000

Cathy, confirm there are no other disks or USB thumbdrives in the computer. If not, then it sounds like a dead hard drive. If you know how to get into your BIOS, look and see if your hard drive is listed there. I suspect it will not be.

By: cathy

cathy — Wed, 18 May 2011 01:39:24 +0000

When I turn on my computer it says disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter my computer did not come with a disk it is an hp pavilion what should I try

By: billy carnes

billy carnes — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:36:21 +0000

my hp pavilion a6667c will not boot and will not let me into bios revision: 5.30
bios date: 9/5/08
cpu type pentium(R) dual core e5200@2.5 ghz
the only drive it’s reading is the cd/dvd on the 4th drive all other drives: 1;2;3;5&6. read none
i have tried a number of times to get into pushing f10 but no go. also have tried use a different keyboard but that didn’t ether. any ideas