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‎07-23-2015 12:56 AM

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@Mathias1 wrote:

Okay, so if I can't get the computer to boot up, how am I supposed to go the site and update the BIOS? That makes no sense to me at all! What am I missing?? Please help - this is for my son's birthday computer that I bought him less than a year ago. Such a shame!

 

 

@Mathias1 - remove the laptop battery, open up the panel on the back of your laptop that exposes the motherboard & memory etc, pop out the CMOS battery THEN press the power button. Your laptop should then boot however you will get a CMOS error but you click a button to get past it and it should then boot into Windows.

 

For safety, shutdown windows and turnoff your laptop, replace the CMOS battery, back panel, and put the laptop battery back in and you should be back in business.

 

I hope this solution works for you also.

 

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‎07-23-2015 12:57 AM

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Thanks for the kudos mdj19 - glad the solution worked for you.

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‎08-27-2015 10:36 AM

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I have my hp pavilion lappy
My laplop is not starting few days ago but when i saw a trick on tomsguide.com that they said that just press the power key then press f8 key. I done like that. it helped me and my lappy was opened for just few minutes and then its dark and capslock light is blinking...
So tell me what should i do
Plzzzzz
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‎08-27-2015 10:46 AM

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I have hp pavilion
Few days ago
I opened laptop and i saw that screen is dark and capslock is blinking. I saw the solution on internet that i removed battery nd hold power key for 2min then i fixed battery and opened laptop and immediately press f8 key continuously. My laptop opened for a minutes then automatically dark...
So what to do
Plz help me
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‎08-27-2015 10:47 AM

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Need help
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‎09-01-2015 04:17 AM - last edited on ‎09-01-2015 10:43 AM by Retired

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‎09-01-2015 04:18 AM

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‎10-03-2015 07:37 AM

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my capslock blinks F12 is amber what is the problem
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‎10-03-2015 10:39 PM

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i have the same problem i and a friend of nine tried to fix it but said that my laptop needs new motherboard.. i have Hp pavillion touchscreen .. please help me bcause i cant afford a new motherboard
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‎10-15-2015 06:15 AM - edited ‎10-20-2015 09:05 PM

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Which error code is this ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm4E6zWFrCg

 

EDIT: it means the discrete video card needs to be reballed due to poor thermal design.

 

 

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