Hey guys, I have an HP Pavillion DV7 and today it wouldn't boot. I would hit the power button, and the lights above the keyboard would light, as well as the power button, but the disc activity light on the front was not lit. The screen also remained blank, not even lit. I took the computer all of the way down and cleaned everything and re assembled it, same thing. Out of desperation, I took an old laptop that has since stopped working and installed it's hard drive to test if that was the problem (I don't really know the dangers of this, if any, I was just looking for an answer). When I hit the power button, the screen lit and it looked as if it was going to boot (even going to the windows xp loading screen), but then it would fail to boot and take me to a screen with a message, failed to boot and jazz (can't remember exactly), and gave me the options of starting in 3 variations of safe mode, with last working configuration, and normally. I tried all, and all ended the same way (probably because it was a drive from another laptop with other settings and even a different OS [the laptop that wouldn't boot is on windows 7, the canibalized hard drive had xp installed])...
So, I then re installed the original drive, and to my surprise, it booted, and I'm typing this message on it right now. My question is: what may have happened? Is my drive failing? Is there a way to check? Should I be worried? And finally, what can I do to fix this?
Thanks guys, you're always so helpful.
So, I then re installed the original drive, and to my surprise, it booted, and I'm typing this message on it right now. My question is: what may have happened? Is my drive failing? Is there a way to check? Should I be worried? And finally, what can I do to fix this?
Thanks guys, you're always so helpful.
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