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‎01-06-2020 07:44 AM

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Product: hP
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP

Hi my Pc when i turn it on it gives me the 3F0 sign please assist

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‎01-06-2020 12:08 PM

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Hello @geo0722,

you didn’t tell which notebook you use, but the code 3F0 normally means, that your hard drive had died. Since you wrote that you use Windows XP, your notebook had to be rather old, so that it would be normal for a hard drive of that age to fail. You could look for a new hard drive and reinstall Windows and all programs, but you will notice that for example some older MS Office Versions can‘t be activated anymore, because Microsoft shut down the activation servers for several older products.

 

Good luck.

 

Uli

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