How do I get my HP Laptop to get past the start up screen?

Here's the problem: When I turn my laptop on, the HP invent start up screen comes up. On the bottom of the screen it says to press ESC to change boot order and press F2 to enter setup, F12 to boot from LAN. It won't go past this screen. When I push ESC, F2, or F12 it does nothing... It stays on the start up screen. I've asked a friend or two and they think that the hard drive may be fried. What do you think?How do I get my HP Laptop to get past the start up screen?
Well its either the board or hard drive. But hard drives dont necessarily will freeze after the boot screen. Motherboards will. To verify if the hard drive is bad is to undo the harddrive caddy and remove it then boot the PC. It will boot up and then say hard disk 0 not found then it will mean the motherboard works but the hard drive was bad. BUT only try that if its NOT UNDER WARRANTY. If you still have a warranty let HP to all the grunt work and troubleshooting.



Sounds to me the board is bad.How do I get my HP Laptop to get past the start up screen?
Probably a problem with the motherboard or bios. It sounds like you need to call or email HP and get them to replace/fix your computer.
It sounds like it is locking up at that point. Can you see the hard drive light flashing when you hit one of the keys? If not it is locked up. It may be getting a bad command at that point and could need to have windows reloaded. You might try hitting the F7 or the F9 or the F11 keys while it is booting up from the time you first turn it on. I might let you do a restore point if there are any set. If that is a no go you will need to boot from a cd and reinstall the whole thing. But being the computer is booting to the startup screen the HD is working. So see if you can get a new install init.



Good luck.
is there not a f10 for system recovery? you not make your system recovery back up cd's

what happen to the system recovery file on your hp -computer ? for you delete it?



click on start /all programs

in the list go to pc help %26amp; tool

then click on

hp-pc- recovery tools-cd

noW click on

creat the recovery tools cd

use a cd(r) disk ...to creater the pc tools cd

then click next

and wait for it to creat a

system tool recovery cd

do not stop it at all

when the system tools

cd is created your have

a system recovery tools

cd- this cd will reinstall

all the software that came with the pc and

now coz we have reset the software it will

restall the software that is on the pc and

reinstall windows xp home and set it back up

windows xp will be reinstalled and set back up



hp-pc-tools cd

this just reinstall's the software that was on the

the hard drive at the time you buy the pc it will also

install windows xp with out asking for the windows xp cd..







hp-pc-dvd revovery creater cd

click on start /all programs

in the list go to pc help %26amp; tool

then click on

hp-pc- recovery creater cd

use a dvd (r)disk .do not stop this till the .hp-recovery .creater cd's have been made.then your have your .hp-recover creater cd's







what.hp-creater cd's do

hp-pc-dvd revovery creater cd

use a dvd(r) disk

to create the revovery creater cd

you will have 2 options

options 1: to just install the windows xp %26amp; the software that was on

the hard drive from day 1 without for mating the hard drive

options2: will format the hard drive

and reinstall windows xp with out asking for the windows xp cd

%26amp; install the software that was on the pc from day1
When you turn on your computer and the HP invent start up screen appears, immediately press F8, then go to the option: Last known settings that worked, or something like that.
When Windows Xp boots, there two files involved, Boot-loader and Boot.ini . one will tell widows where to find the operating system and the other will load your configuration your user name included, both files are well known for being corrupted therefore your windows will hang up at the welcome screen. Two things you may wanna do to help you solve this problem

-try to restart your computer, on at the welcom screen, insert a windows XP CD rom if you do have one, let it run for 5 minutes, remove the CD the reboot your computer again that will fix the corrupted file.

-Or use the system recovery application.