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:confused: Hi, I have an HP Pavillion 7965 that wont boot after reinstalling windows xp! All I get now is a black screen with blinking underscore in top left hand corner! i've tried hundreds of fixes but to no avail for a week & a half now & it's driving me nuts! I know my way round a pc but this is beyond me! Any suggestions or advice would mean a great deal to me, but be warned I've tried most things already!! :(

 

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go into the BIOS and set the first boot device to HDD and not CD/DVD rom :)

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Done that a thousand times & visa versa to load Ubuntu live cd, recovery disks, xp cd's & repair & Seatools check cd's!

thanks for your fast reply!

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Have you set the first boot device to the correct HDD? is there more than one HDD in the system?

 

After you set the first boot device (I always recommend disabling the others)

 

failing that can you give us more info, HDD type IDE/SATA, using onboard SATA or a PCI card

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I had exactly the same issue, twice and once it was the Ram sticks I had to swap around,and the second time,I accidently unseated a Ram stick. May pay to check they are seated properly including your Video Card.

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I had 2 hdd's installed, a 60gb Maxtor IDE as slave & the primary Seagate 300gb IDE, onboard PCI! I swapped them round to see if it made a difference but finally disconnected the Maxtor & now just have the Seagate installed as primary drive! It shows up in bios fine with no problems in any areas!
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I've reseated both ram video card & just about every other item in pc to no avail! I took out both my 512mb sticks & repaced with a working 256mb stick! Showed up in bios fine, reseated that even, but still I get that black screen!
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Are the drives set correctly between master/slave on the cable as well as the HDDs themselves (jumpers)?

If more than one drive is present then in the boot order it should list either:-

HDD-0

HDD-1

CD/DVD Rom

USB

etc ect or:-

Maxtor (numbers)

Seagate (numbers)

CD/DVD Rom

USB

etc

 

Just make sure the drive with the OS is at the very top and disable the rest.

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Are the drives set correctly between master/slave on the cable as well as the HDDs themselves (jumpers)?

If more than one drive is present then in the boot order it should list either:-

HDD-0

HDD-1

CD/DVD Rom

USB

etc ect or:-

Maxtor (numbers)

Seagate (numbers)

CD/DVD Rom

USB

etc

 

Just make sure the drive with the OS is at the very top and disable the rest.[/quote

 

Only the one (Seagate 300gb!) drive in there now & the order is correct! I should just let you know that I've even tried a new IDE cable also, with no change! Also that the operating system that I'm trying to install is Windows XP Home Premium! It goes through the whole process no probs, reboots & still gives me this black screen of death!?

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Then either the drive is knackered or their is a problem with the IDE cable

 

are you 100% sure that you installed it to the 300GB and not the 60GB~?

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Then either the drive is knackered or their is a problem with the IDE cable

 

are you 100% sure that you installed it to the 300GB and not the 60GB~?

 

I'm 100% sure it's the Seagate 300gb drive in there, as I have the Maxtor here in front of me as we speak! I've also booted up with no hdd whatsoever installed, & I still get the same darn thing!? :( Seatools tells me everything is fine when both short & long tests are done on the Segate hdd!

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Monitor is Blank after Starting the Computer HP Pavilion 7965 Desktop PC (US/CAN) - HP Customer Care (United States - English)#

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Thnx, but I don't think it's a monitor problem, as I can work off Ubuntu Live CD (Linux!) no probs! Only I'm not Linux litterate, so it doesn't help, as all I can do from there is hdd testing!

OK. I always zero my hdd, before installing winXP or anything else, just to make sure nothing is left on my HDD.

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OK. I always zero my hdd, before installing winXP or anything else, just to make sure nothing is left on my HDD.

 

The Seatools will do the short & long tests with with good results but comes up with an error when trying any sort of low level formatting!? I've tried dban & maxblast with same errors when trying to zero the hdd! Any other tests in any other prog'ms tell me the drive is fine, formats fine & shows up fine in bios fine etc! Also this black screen appears when I don't even have the hard drive in the PC at all?? :confused:

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Did you try BartPE CD, which is more Windows-like. ?

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

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Jesus man, you tried already so many things, hard to find something new. It would drive me crazy too.

I guess, changing the boot sequence, didn't help either.

Booting directly from HARDDISK, not CD or DISKETTE.

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Jesus man, you tried already so many things, hard to find something new. It would drive me crazy too.

I guess, changing the boot sequence, didn't help either.

Booting directly from HARDDISK, not CD or DISKETTE.

 

Unfortunately yes, I've done all that too! :confused: :(

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Unfortunately yes, I've done all that too! :confused: :(

This is not normal man.

In such situation, I would bring my computer to my computer-repair-shop and let them fix it or you wait here for a solution.

I ran out of ideas and I'm certainly not a computer-expert to help you any further.

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This Guy had a Thread running on this same issue,on another Site,and because he is using Illegal Software,has had his Thread Closed by Admin.

Confidence, is the feeling I get, moments before I stuff something up.

 

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This Guy had a Thread running on this same issue,on another Site,and because he is using Illegal Software,has had his Thread Closed by Admin.

Thanks for the info, I'm not interested in this thread anymore, waste of time.

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If we had that information,it would been easier to find the cause. Edited by DSTM

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If we had that information,it would been easier to find the cause.

Very true, we have wasted 21 posts on this guy. Pffft.

Isn't it true when WinXP isn't activated after 30 days, you get a black screen on your computer ?

The same must happen with an illegal winXP, I think.

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ErikAlbert - "Simplicity is always brilliant" - "Every software sucks, some softwares suck more than others."

Security : FirstDefense-ISR + Anti-Executable + Sandboxie + ShadowProtect - no scanners, no cleaners.

My security doesn't recognize malware like scanners, malware is removed because it changed something. :cool:

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