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    HP dv9700 rebooting even before booting BIOS

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Kresjan, May 31, 2010.

  1. Kresjan

    Kresjan Newbie

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    Hello all.
    I have a problem with my dv9700. When I try to turn it on, it lights up in the small blue LED's, but then reboots even before I see the BIOS booting, this it keeps on doing again and again.
    I've come to the conclusion that it's some kind of hardware failure, but exactly which one it is, I don't know. I tried switching out the RAM but with no luck.
    Anyone here have a suggestion to what to do?
    I have A LOT of very important data on the PC and I off cause have taken backups, but not recently.
     
    Kresjan, May 31, 2010
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  2. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    Let me guess, NVIDIA GPU? If so it's probably failing. There is a temporary fix:
    dv9000 issue - Page 2
    but having repaired a few of these I recommend buying a new notebook, pulling the drive from your old notebook and transferring your data to the new machine with a SATA to USB or SATA to eSATA cable, and selling the old notebook as broken on eBay.

    If you don't have a NVIDIA GPU....? What's the exact model number, printed on the bottom of the notebook?
     
    brianstretch, May 31, 2010
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  3. Kresjan

    Kresjan Newbie

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    Yes it is a Nvidia CPU. I'm transfering the data atm via a SATA -> USBcable. Is it possible to change the CPU? Be cause I have another HP dv7000 with a broken harddrive, so was wondering weather I could take the CPU from the dv7000 and put into the dv9000?
     
    Kresjan, Jun 1, 2010
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  4. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Nvidia is a GPU, not to be confused with a CPU. Unfortunately you cannot swap GPU's because it is soldered on to the board. CPU's you can swap.
     
    flipfire, Jun 2, 2010
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  5. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    What flipfire said. That, and while the CPUs are socketed the dv7000 and dv9700 series notebooks use very different ones. Different HD standards too, IDE on the dv7000 and SATA on the dv9700. Getting an IDE HD for the dv7000 and swapping it in would be easy enough but I'd dump both machines on eBay and buy something new, preferably with an ATI GPU.
     
    brianstretch, Jun 3, 2010
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    Hold down any key on the keyboard while it boots up. ;)
     
    2600, Nov 30, 2010
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