Today, My HP dv2000 laptop would not POST or Beep during start up. It just sat at the HP start up screen which is black and had a white HP logo. I tried unplugging it from the wall and taking out the battery for an hour or two with no success. I tried holding down the power [...]
Troubleshooting hardware can be very challenging and take hours or days to complete. The first thing I usually do is download the latest drivers and software from the hardware manufacturers for my version of the operating system and hardware I am using. I also make sure that every thing is plugged in correctly to my [...]
A lot of the time, I find going into the BIOS very frustrating because I can’t remember which key I press to go into the BIOS during my computer start up event. There are instructions on the PC start up screen, but the start up process is so fast that I can’t read everything, or [...]
I notice sometimes a computer won’t start up when USB printers, drives, or any other USB hardware is plugged in and turned on, so if your computer suddenly pauses during start up. It is worth it to turn off your printer, external USB drives, Scanners, webcam, tablets, etc. I’m not sure about firewire causing pauses during [...]
