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Thread ID: 55658	2005-03-16 04:05:00	HP Pavillion 6605 woes.	pAKAGe (7610)	Press F1

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334667	2005-03-16 04:05:00	Hello, hope someone can help with this.. its a bit long winded but help would be appreciated as the HP support site, and team answering my emails are usless. My friend was trying to reinstall windows 98 on their HP pavillion 6605. The CD wouldnt auto boot, so they thought it would be a good idea to restart into dos and format both of the hard drives. Then the computer, when re-booted, has a blank screen. So they gave it to me.. an A+ technician to try and fix. But its got me stumped. When i switch the computer on, its not like the screen comes on, and its blank, but the light on the screen remains orange, instead of turning green. Its as if the screen is still in stand by mode. The hard drives spin up, there are no beep codes emitting from the computer. I have tried the monitor with a different computer, and it works. I have tried the computer with a different monitor, and it still doesnt work. I decided to take the computer apart, and clean out all the dust, and re-seat the ram and cpu, just incase this was causing an issue, even though there were no beep codes happening. So as far as i can tell, the computer is booting fine, but the screen isnt getting told to turn on? i have tried installing a pci graphics card, but i dont know how to disable the onboard graphics card without being able to use bios. The same thing happened when i installed the pci graphics card, seems to boot fine, no beeps but the screen doesnt come out of stand by mode. In my mind, i have narrowed it down to the possibility of two things. Either the onboard graphics card needs to be disabled, because possibly the power connector telling the screen to switch on is not working, and then a pci graphics card installed. But the main thing that i think made the computer stop working (as it was the last action performed before it malfunctioned) is the deleting of everything from both of the hard drives. Does anyone out there have any idea why formatting the hard drives would stop the screen from turning on? hopefully one of you has run into the same problem and can help, or has some useful ideas or advice. Thanks for your time. Craig.	pAKAGe (7610)
334668	2005-03-16 04:14:00	So as far as i can tell, the computer is booting fine, but the screen isnt getting told to turn on? You accurately describe the lack of a boot. No beep is a give-away, if you mean by "no beep codes" that you get no beep at all? You should get one single short one. What does the keyboard CAP Lock light do when you toggle the key? If nothing, the PC is as dead as a dodo.	godfather (25)
334669	2005-03-16 04:44:00	May be a waste of time but try a new CMOS battery.	FoxyMX (5)
334670	2005-03-16 04:47:00	Altho I am unfamiliar with HP computers, no beep code is not always a bad thing... it may simply mean the speaker hasn't been connected. As far as the other problems, why not keep the other monitor connected and sort out if you can reformat, as well as if the monitor will work using pci card. Sounds to me like a graphics problem because neither monitor works with it	Myth (110)
334671	2005-03-16 05:50:00	Tried any of these HP suggestions (h10025.www1.hp.com) ? You need to disable the on-board video in the bios but yeah pretty hard to navigate unless you had some good screenshots or access to the same/similiar model..	gibler (49)
334672	2005-03-16 06:03:00	Well no. not all systems beep, even when the case speaker, is connected properly. re: like this one. It used to beep, BUT ASUS when they updated the BIOS previously, thought they'll annoy ppl, and make it so it'll beep, with every USB device / u had!.. in my case that would have been 1 beep for the digi cam, 1 for the card reader, 1 for the USB hub, 1 for the USB mouse, one for the USB scanner lol. So, if u heard 5 - 6 beeps, you wouldn't know, whether it was a problem with hardware, or whether it was just the mobo beeping with the USB devices. So, in the end ppl got rather p***** off, and in the end ASUS with the newer BIOS updates decided to kill the beeping altogether. So, on bootup on these mobos, you dont get any beeps, no nothing.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
334673	2005-03-16 08:46:00	wow.. lots of feed back.. thanks. Your right godfather.. its not making any beeps at all.. and it should be making one beep at start up i guess. The numlock, capslock and scroll lock lights are all flashing at start up, so thats a good thing. I might take out the hard drives and install windows on the master hard drive while its installed in my computer? does that sound like a good idea?	pAKAGe (7610)
334674	2005-03-16 08:47:00	I have tried all the steps on the HP support site, and emailed them many times, with no luck.. they arent even understanding whats going wrong.. they keep thinking that i mean the light on the computer stays orange.. and the computers on standby mode...........	pAKAGe (7610)
334675	2005-03-16 08:50:00	Tried any of these HP suggestions (h10025.www1.hp.com) ? You need to disable the on-board video in the bios but yeah pretty hard to navigate unless you had some good screenshots or access to the same/similiar model.. when i tried theyre step for resetting the bios to default i couldnt hear any change in the system.. should i have been able to hear the hard disks spin down then up when it restarted?	pAKAGe (7610)
334676	2005-03-16 08:51:00	You should be getting screen activity even without the harddrive installed in the machine,and installing an OS on the drive while mounted in another comp is just going to cause the wrong drivers to be installed,and won't help the comp having issues. In a nutshell, don't bother. Take all the pci cards out of the comp,unplug the drives,If there are more then one stick of ram then remove them all aprt from one. Clear the bios settings either via a jumper or ejecting the battery. Then boot the comp, still no sign of life?....time to start swapping out the components, start with the psu. Actually you can plug another psu in first and see what happens, it doesn't need to be mounted in the case or plugged into the drives,just into the mobo.....	Metla (12)
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