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Optima
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« on: October 23, 2011, 05:28:55 AM »
Hi ,

I have a HP a6230uk, about two weeks ago it crashed. I reinstall the OS Vista HP and it crashed again. I can get to the BIOS screen and change the boot up menu so that the machine boots up from disc, but that's it. The machine is only 3/4 years old and has had little use. I'm fairly  savvy with computers but this has totally baffled me.

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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2011, 07:52:35 AM »
It should be still under warranty?
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2011, 08:46:10 AM »
Should it Bryan?...The thing is I bought it 3 years ago...never unpacked it as my HP 608 was working well. Only 'unpacked' this one 7/8 months ago as my niece's computer went belly up, and gave her the 608.

The loop is for sure a mystery.....probably hardware failure, but where to start?

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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2011, 09:42:59 AM »
what sort of crash, please describe it in as much detail as you can, does it blue screen? any error messages?

It would be a good idea to fit a new BIOS battery too as it has been sitting unpacked for all this time, the BIOS battery would be drained somewhat by now.
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2011, 11:44:04 AM »
Thx JH for the interest.

The computer sometimes Bsod's are sometimes just loops back to the BIOS screen...its random. Changed the BIOS battery last week - made no difference. Managed on one occasion to get Linux OS on, but again after updating it went looping again. A real head scratcher !!

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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2011, 02:57:48 PM »
sorry it wont be under warranty
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