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Hey JustAfix. There are a couple of ways to boot into it with a HP laptop: nomodeset, video.allow_duplicates=1, pci=noacpi to name a few. However, installing any driver results in blackscreen ie. no Xorg. The only solution is to delete xorg.conf and get then remove --purge the ati driver (and restore mesa). I was checking it to make sure that PCI: is correct and it was. I think PCI=1:00:00 or something, cant remember. As for the BIOS and laptop version, yes, i read some RTFM and i know which laptop i have 
The problem is that the drivers supplied do not match. I will crawl around the HP site and give you the link i used. It seems that there are 2 pages containing HP G62-a70sm drivers and if you choose the wrong one - you get stuck with the problem i had (one page was completely black and the other was white). I had to do a fresh install of w7. I am NOT using any of the drivers supplied on the site because the only thing i get is bad performance. I've let w7 install all the updates and its flying atm - i have never been more satisfied with my laptop. Also, i used the 12.2 driver from the guru3d site. It needs tweaking because the driver doesnt "understand" the screens properly but after a few minutes i got it to work the way its supposed to. Frankly, i wont be coming back to the support site to get drivers and updates (which of course will never come). I will however try to help people here solve their problems because there is no real support. Finally, i will look these pages up and post them here so you can check them out (if you want). Thanks for trying to help. V
The problem is that the drivers supplied do not match. I will crawl around the HP site and give you the link i used. It seems that there are 2 pages containing HP G62-a70sm drivers and if you choose the wrong one - you get stuck with the problem i had (one page was completely black and the other was white). I had to do a fresh install of w7. I am NOT using any of the drivers supplied on the site because the only thing i get is bad performance. I've let w7 install all the updates and its flying atm - i have never been more satisfied with my laptop. Also, i used the 12.2 driver from the guru3d site. It needs tweaking because the driver doesnt "understand" the screens properly but after a few minutes i got it to work the way its supposed to. Frankly, i wont be coming back to the support site to get drivers and updates (which of course will never come). I will however try to help people here solve their problems because there is no real support. Finally, i will look these pages up and post them here so you can check them out (if you want). Thanks for trying to help. V
