Every time I boot my laptop (HP Envy 14) it goes to a start up failure screen and I have the option of starting windows in repair mode (recommended) or starting windows normally. either option freezes the computer at the windows is starting up screen, at a light blue screen that looks like the windows login background, brings me back to the start up failure screen, or, if i disable auto restart on start up failure, brings me to some type of blue screen of death.
I spoke to HP support and they told me to try and do a self hard disk test in BIOS. The test completed the first half but froze on the second. They then asked for the hard disk information in the main tab in BIOS but it is no where to be found. The Rep then told me to press f11 to do a system recovery but that brought me to another frozen screen. (attempting to boot into safe mode also brings me to a freeze screen). The rep then wanted me to get it sent in for HDD repair. This laptop is less than 2 months old! I see a lot of people with this problem doing a google search but all of the solutions involve booting from a clean install of windows disk (dont have) or booting into one of the modes that bring me into a freeze screen. I only have the recovery disks I made when I first got the laptop.
So, What do you guys think, is there anything else I can try or should I just get it warrantied. (2 months after purchase -_-)
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You don't need to send in the entire computer for a hard drive replacement. Ask them to send you the replacement drive and the recovery disks. Insist on it. The Envy series was designed with user replaceable hard drives and RAM.
Stuck in windows start up failure loop, any hope or do I need a new HDD?
Discussion in 'HP' started by mwmnj, Jul 24, 2011.