No response from the hard drive or windows 7 to my monitor help

[gwolfman]

Greetings.  I have a HP P7 1297cb, all original hardware except memory and hard drive.

Original OS was Home, now is Pro.
I thought my hard drive expired and bought a new WD black 2tb.
And I dont have the other harddrive cause I already threw it away.

So, this is where I am at.   I installed the new WD Black and Nothing.  Monitor powers on and that is it.
I get a hard drive light at first,  about 5 to 10 seconds and off.  Touch the HD and feels light low running.
All fans and charge light on.  Power supply light on.

No caps lock or number lock lights.  Monitor and key and mouse works,  as I am using them now.

Pulled the four 2gb memory sticks and get the beep.  Plugged one at a time back in and no beeps.
Using a Windows 7 Pro Rebuild disc for installation.  When computer starts,  I tried F10, F12 and nothing.
I have even pulled the mobo battery for a few seconds.
I have unplugged the power cord(pc) and held the power button in for 30 sec or so.
I have even powered on with the installation disc in and waited(up to at least 20 mins) to see if screen would change and nothing.
I am ready to check the cpu, which is only thing left to check,  I am guessing on that.
I get no beeps or beep when starting the pc.

So,  I am guessing also, that my problem was not the hard drive in the first place.???
Thanks in advance for any help.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

gwolfman

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

I have no idea what a "Windows 7 Pro Rebuild disk" is -- so I have no idea whether or not that is bootable media.

Unless you have changed the default device sequence in the boot section of your BIOS setup, it is going to look at the hard drive FIRST, and since that is empty, the PC is just going to sit there -- doing nothing.

So, you need to get to a boot device selection screen in order to boot from the Win7 DVD.

The typical ways to do this are to press either F9 or F12 -- one of these will put up a one-time boot device selection menu.  Then, you select the DVD drive and the PC should then reboot.

It may display a line of text at the top of the screen, something like "press any key to boot from ..."  If so, press the space bar.

If the DVD is good, the PC will then boot into an initial screen for installing Windows.

Good Luck

[gwolfman]

As I first power on,  I did the F12 and F10 and got nothing.

Maybe I am doing it wrong or problem is something else.

My Keyboard is not functioning hooked up to the HP,  as the caps light or number light wont come on.?

I will try again with the "F" keys again.

[gwolfman]

Okay, all is well and good.  I had the mobo battery out for a extended period of time and replaced and powered up and tried the F12 key again.   This time there was a response and I brought up the boot sequense to the opitcal dvd cd drive and reinstallation started.   There was a message pretaining to the battery being out as to no time and date, but will address that later in the setup.  The windows disc I mentioned is just a bare bones from MS to load windows, no drivers.

I have to load drivers from HP support Drivers. 

THIS Is Solved for now.  Either I did not press F12 correctly or loose wire.  But I am back in business .

[gwolfman]

Sorry for no update or response.  Been pretty hectic with the wifes pc on the blink(laptop screen)and my hp p7 1297c problem.   I ended up taking the desktop to a pc shop and they tested it to be a bad mobo.  Got a replacement from epray and installed okay,  except when I got to the internet driver.  Would not load (error code 999) system does not meet requirements???  Every other driver from the support drivers loaded ,  but,  No Internet.   Well, the wireless is working, but, I use the LAN instead.  So,  I have that problem now.  So, this thread has been solved being a bad mother board.  I will start another thread in Networking for my ethernet connection and driver not loading(sp56617 and sp56821)