Still doing it, 2 - 3 times to boot up properly.

Well my HP dv6000 is still acting up.
Sometimes the laptop will not fully start/load. Meaning it never fully reaches the point when you can surf the net.
When it is not fully functional my mouse will not work when I click on IE or even the start button it can't activate them. It moves but does not activate any icons.
So I'll have to manually shut the lap top down by pushing the power button.
Next time it boots, It may not get to the point where the wireless is not up and running so I can't get IE to run it seems to fall short on booting to that point.
Then I have to hold the power button down to get it to reboot and start again.
Most all the time on the third reboot everything will work fine and run normally.

Any Ideas ?

Time to reinstall my recovery discs and start clean ?

Thanks.

 

Might be a range of things. Powering down like that, might be killing the hard drive as it's writing or reading something, maybe corrupting something, like files (I don't know the specifics, that's just an inference of it, all I know is when you power down the hard drive manually midway writing/reading it parks the heads to prevent physical damage, not sure about what happens to what it was doing). I'd avoid having to do that. Next, the amount of time you'll spend troubleshooting that will just be for naught, so I suggest, yank the HDD out, back it up on another computer, and just reinstall Vista, clean if you can (not from the recovery discs, from a Vista install disc as that will just contain Vista and nothing else, not even some drivers you may need, doesn't have to be "clean" though). And then just restore the backup, and see if that fixes anything. If it's still acting up, I'd look at hardware problems, HDD, or RAM maybe?

 

click start, type "msconfig" into the start search bar and hit enter. Select "diagnostic startup" apply and exit followed by a restart to see if it starts normally with only the basics installed. If it does start normally it means one of your drivers or startup programs is messing with your system. Could be anything from anti virus to a particular driver.

 

Either the hard drive is dying, your memory is dying or you have a bad case of viruses.

You can boot up, but your computer won't load any applications or highlight shortcuts. The fact that it booted up and you could move your mouse means that your memory seems fine. I am aiming more towards a hard drive problem. Maybe it's slowly dying? Do you have virtual memory enabled?

Have you dropped your laptop in the recent future? Any substantial knocks or bangs?

 

Have not dropped the laptop. This start up problem is very erratic. This morning it needed its 3 start ups to work. Yesterday it was fine.
Grantman your suggestion didn't help.
As far as I know no viruses.
Sdreamer how do I get the laptop to restart with out powering down? Its not vista its XP.
Any other ideas guys.
Thanks

 

I did make a set of recovery disc's when I got the laptop, should I try that route? I do have a sealed disc of win 98 ( LOL ) maybe just install that instead of XP?
Thanks

 

Which specific model of dv6000? Does it have a NVIDIA GPU?

 

It has VNIDIA Nview Desk top manager

 

It is dv6105 us

 

dv6105us specifications

One of the early symptoms of the defective NVIDIA chipset failing is wireless going out. See if your notebook is on this list:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&lc=en&cc=us

If it's not, that just means that HP is much less likely to help you but all NVIDIA chips of that vintage are defective and are likely to eventually fail from thermal stress.

 

Thanks for the tip and link.
What I have done to date was the update and did an HP recovery. All seems to be fine.
No problems so far.
Thanks for help guys.