[Etherel15]

HP Pavillion dv6500t laptop
Vista Home Premium

I had my laptop out and was scanning a few articles today when it turned off. I assumed the battery died so I plugged it in, and restarted it. The thing wouldn't get into windows though. It showed the opening page (push <F#> for stuff page) then went to loading windows vista, then the screen turned black, and Windows never booted up. normally it will blink black for a few seconds and then load up, but it never loaded. I tried multiple times, no success.

then I pushed F8 to go into advanced option and tried to boot using last known good configuration, and had no success. Tried it a couple times with no results. Then I hit F2 and did a RAM memory test, passed. Tried to boot into safe mode, and it keeps stalling on the same spot. It loads driver CLASSPNP.sys then crcdisk.sys and just stalls, and I have to turn it off. Hangs up on that same spot every time.

I'm currently running a hard disc check (eta 94 minutes), but I've run out of options for fixing this thing. I've lost my recovery discs I burned when I got the laptop, so I don't have that option readily available atm (though I know someone who may have a set available later next week). Since the last restart, I've installed nothing. I updated my drivers and flashed the BIOS about 3-4 restarts ago, and its worked fine since then, so I don't think its a driver issue, but not sure. If anyone can help, I'd be most appreciative

~Phillip

[Etherel15]

If anyones wondering, I was able to acquire a windows XP installation disc, and use that to scan for missing drivers. Oddly it didn't report any problems while doing this, and it did boot up after that just fine. I think that the boot proccess "lost" some of the windows files, and when Windows finally loaded with the XP disc in, it just regenerated the missing files from off the disc.

I don't know what was fixed, but it seems to be working now.

[Elvandil]

See if it will boot without the disk if you haven't tried. Some boot files may be missing/damaged.

[Etherel15]

its the first thing I did, its been working fine every since.

[Elvandil]

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[flymaster]

Hi Etherel15,

it seems that I have exactly the same problem. Can you please expalin exactly what you have done with the XP disc? I have put it into the disc drive but nothing happened. The same when I change the boot device to CD-ROM.
Thanks much!