20 Most Recent HP Compaq Presario SR1950NX PC Desktop Questions & Answers

The words "disc boot failure" are terrifying for most computer users.

A disc boot failure notification generally means that your hard drive and operating system may be useless.

Fortunately, there are a variety of ways to troubleshoot your system in order to salvage your computer.

You may need to restart your computer a number of times before you manage to fix the error, so don't get discouraged.

A couple things to check first, make sure there's no floppy disc/cd in the drives, and if you are comfortable with computers, you can enter the boot setup of your BIOS, and check to see that your hard drive is listed as the primary boot device.

WARNING: Before you start troubleshooting remember that you are dealing with electricity that can KILL.

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Or there is a connection problem such as a bad cable

Test all power and data leads that attach to your hard drive IDE,SATA

the leads from your MOTHERBOARD TO THE HARD DRIVE make sure they have a

secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty if its a flat 40pin ide

this will be the first to fail

make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty

or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs power and data to travel through every working device and continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error

Turn off your computer by pressing and holding the power button until the computer shuts down.

Locate the boot disc for your operating system (OS).

Turn on your computer and insert the CD into the proper drive before your monitor reaches the BIOS screen.

If the computer cannot read the CD, eject it and wipe the readable side of the disc with a clean cloth.

Restart your computer and re-insert the CD.

If this does not begin to load your operating system

Restart your computer and press the "DEL" key when you reach the BIOS screen.

This will bring you to BIOS settings.

Make sure that your hard drive is enabled to be read by BIOS. Restart your computer.

Access the command prompt by pressing the "F8" button at the appropriate moment.

Your monitor will display a notification at the bottom of the screen when you can access the system options with "F8." From the menu that appears, select the "Command Prompt" option.

Enter the text "fdisk /mbr". On the next line, enter "sys c:" and press "Enter."

This will initiate a system restore of corrupted discs.

If this does not clear the disc boot error problem.

Turn off your computer and remove the power supply.

Remove the side panel from your hard drive tower by hand or with a screwdriver.

Locate the hard drive of your computer in the top-front section of the hard drive tower when viewed from the side.

Using your fingertips, make sure all connections to and from your hard drive component are secure.

Locate the BIOS battery, which is a circular battery found on the motherboard.

Make sure that all connections to and from the BIOS battery are secure.

Check the connection of your computer's RAM to your motherboard.

hope this helps

usually a BSOD is related to a driver problem. Try booting in safe mode (pressing F8 after turning on) and go to device manager and see if you have any problems showing.

Hi ,1st , click on your start button , on the right will be the control panel , click on that.2nd - find the device mamager icon and click on that ,3rd- under network adapters , check to see if your nic card is there , if so you have a conflick and I need to know more info ,,,,,,,,,,write me back and let me know what you found Roy

Go onto the Manufactures website and install all the drivers on there.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=3184153

Hi
Here you can download all you need to get you Compaq up and running:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&dlc=en&product=3184153&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

You can download the drivers from the Compaq/HPWEB support/download page. Make sure you select your model desktop and the XP orVista Windows version of the drivers you require and install them. Click onthis link to download the drivers: -
www.compaq.com/country/cpq_support.html

Do you have a system disk? If so, try the tip listed below--even though it doesn't say it is for your specific problem, it should work.
http://www.fixya.com/support/r4501608-when_windows_xp_start_primary_fix

Probably the VGA Card is defective, try to replace it. Try to clean the fan from dirt but be careful not to touch the motherboard components.

Hello, Try removing the battery and fix it back after 5 min. If the problem not solved it has to be the problem with your display adapters or ram.

It is possible, also try removing the BIOS/CMOS battery for about a minute then reinstall in the correct orientation.
This a common problem, either the BIOS is currupt or one or more components have failed on your mainboard. For instance a capacitor may have gone out of tolerence, in which case you could replace them. But it this is only a possibility, there are hundreds of components that may have failed. Replacing capacitors would only be some-thing you could try.
Depends on how much time and money you would like spent on it, just for the chance that it may work. Might be better to Buy a replacement board.

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A good place to start would be to go to start - control panel - system -hardware - device manager. Click display adapters and see if the PC first recognizes what you have installed and two, see if any other components are having troubles being identified.

It may be the clogged fan that caused this problem then resulted to overheat. possibly you need to replace the motherboard. or first, try using a bootable cd to boot your pc up. it may also be an issue with your hard drive not booting up.

My suggestion would be to open the case and unplug everything and then plug it all back in again.
To test individual components, unplug everything but the CPU, memory, and video card to see if it starts.
Then one by one, plug the other stuff in and try starting again.

sticky key might cause the problem and make your system hang up, try to check/replace keyboard and or your mouse,running low memory is another cause of beep, are you running more than one program that time?pop ups can cause beep too,is that helps?...

you need to format the laptop. the only way to remove viruses, no antivurs can help once they strike this bad

Appears that recovery disk #2 is bogus. U can try to get a new set from HP (fat chance!) or you can do a reload from a normal, retail OS disk.

Hello Most laptop or PCs, has a combination keyboard pressing keys, that invoque the restore routine. usually F11 or F10. others has DVD, check and see what you have of these two. in the first one, you recover from a disk partition the whole OS.

Its all about go to HP page, and bios updates, the instructions are there too! but be aware you have to be more specific on model, and BIOS dates.