I have a HP 6537b. It went on sleep mode and won't come out.

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I tried unpluging and taking out the battery, every time I press the power button, the led of the HDD flashes like it is not working or on sleep mode but it won't come out or the screen doesn't light up. I tried CTRL+ALT+DEL and tried with tab to possibly move the cursor on a restart button or shut down and I pushed every key on my keyboard.

I tried locating the clock battery but I did not want to unscrew all the computer not knowing if I'll be able to fix it after.

I tried putting in a CD with a OS on it so it would open up and give me a chance to at least format the HDD. Did not work!!!....

I really don't know what to do!

Help!
 
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You've already met the first suggestion I would have had of removing power sources, and I don't think yanking the bios battery would net you anything. Holding the power button can force a restart, just make sure you have all the peripherals disconnected before hand in case one of those it what's bricking it.

Here's what the googles showed me: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01684768

jdon

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You've already met the first suggestion I would have had of removing power sources, and I don't think yanking the bios battery would net you anything. Holding the power button can force a restart, just make sure you have all the peripherals disconnected before hand in case one of those it what's bricking it.

Here's what the googles showed me: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01684768
 
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JFGMtlQc

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Wow, that sounds great! At least it gives me plenty of possibilities to try and fix it up!

I will try them all or at least a few and let you know how it goes!

Thanks for taking the time to do the research.

That added some words to my IT vocabulary which is often the source of my problem!

"What words to use for my net research for my problems?"

I've been playing with computers since the Vic 20 from Commodore but still there's planty of essential expressions or words that are missing! lol

Thank you,

JF