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    Several Issues

    Discussion in 'HP' started by The Milk Man, Dec 8, 2009.

  1. The Milk Man

    The Milk Man Newbie

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    My little brother has a laptop that has stopped loading the OS, and now It keeps restarting.
    It is a HP Pavillion dv6000

    Most likely a virus has crippled the MBR (Master Boot Record) That's what the original thought was.

    Here is what I have already tried:
    -- Tried running HP recovery (nothing)
    -- Tried resetting to factory defaults.
    -- Tried loading and XP disc in to use the recovery program on that. (Laptop came with Vista I do not have a disc) ((After this is when it started to continuously restart))


    I used to be able to enter the BIOS. Now I can not.

    I am utterly lost right now.

    I even took it into my A+ certification class, that is where we tried the above.

    Any help is greatly appreciated
     
    The Milk Man, Dec 8, 2009
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  2. RemyL75

    RemyL75 Notebook Consultant

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    The only way to know if it really is a virus, is to take the HDD out, and then try to let it boot. It the laptop keeps restarting, then it is clearly not a virus. The fact that you cannot access the BIOS is also evidence of this. So try booting without the HDD. If it keeps restarting, then you have a bigger problem.
     
    RemyL75, Dec 10, 2009
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  3. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    Might be motherboard problem...
     
    sean473, Dec 10, 2009
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  4. nu_D

    nu_D Notebook Deity

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    Bet you a bucket of chicken your Nvidia GPU is dead/dying...
     
    nu_D, Dec 10, 2009
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  5. RemyL75

    RemyL75 Notebook Consultant

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    I'll Get in on that action nu D lol

    Seriously, nu D has a good point. Try hooking it up to a monitor and see if a picture shows.
     
    RemyL75, Dec 10, 2009
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