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‎06-23-2017 06:01 PM

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Product: Pavilion p6t
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

Desktop will not boot up on power-on.  Orange LED beside power switch blinks briefly and then goes out.  I get a low-res blue screen with HP logo and green hand/finger with a subtitle saying 'press the ESC key for start up menu' . . . but nothing happens.

If I press F8 right after hitting power on (while orange LED is blinking), I get a different black low-res screen with the PC's specs listed and a subtitle asking to press ESC to start up.  Again nothing happens.

 

If I put a generic CD in the reader on power-on, machine tries to read it, but stops and goes to the blue screen mentioned above.

 

I don't believe this machine came with a boot-up CD, and I never created a backup/startup CD.

 

We' ve had a couple power outages in the last 2 weeks.  Other than that, no changes to system.

 

How can I get it to boot up??

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