[Zeneta]

I need some advice and some help.

I have an HP Laptop, 4 years old, running Vista.

Not long ago it crashed and won’t start.

Power up, and I can hear the drive spin and search for about 5 seconds, then it dies.

I don’t have a “boot disc” or the ability to F* out of the boot up.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly accepted.

[JDoutrider]

HP has had major motherboard problems in their dv6 and dv9’s. I have given HP the big thumbs down after suffering with their crap for the last decade and a half. If that is the model you have... good luck! Motherboards ain’t cheap!

[Pikachu_Dad]

Get a boot disk. You have to e abe to diagnose the problem.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Neighbor had an Acer with similar issues, ended being a hardware problem(bad GPU/motherboard).

[holymoly]

Power up, and I can hear the drive spin and search for about 5 seconds, then it dies.

I don’t have a “boot disc” or the ability to F* out of the boot up.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly accepted.

Do you see the POST screen?

As someone else mentioned, you may need a boot disk (assuming your system can still boot from an optical drive, and the BIOS boot-sequence will allow it). A Puppy Linux live CD or the System Rescue CD might be of use.

[Neidermeyer]

I have an HP Laptop, 4 years old, running Vista.

Not long ago it crashed and won’t start.
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Call HP , get a OS reload disk , buy a new hard drive and reload..

While you’ve got it open bump the memory to the limit.