20 Most Recent HP Pavilion Desktop a6300f Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 Desktop, Refurbished Questions & Answers

Press the power button to get it out of sleep mode. Sleep mode, think of it as a power nap.

If the power button is flashing or blinking, that means the system has entered sleep mode, low power state. I would suggest not meddling anything related to power, sleep mode was designed for reducing power consumption if the machine was not in use for a set amount of time. It also helps you reduce your electric bill. If you want to use the machine if it is in sleep mode, just simply press the power button on the computer or by pressing the keyboard or mouse to get it out of sleep. Think of sleep mode as a 2 hour power nap.

Be certain you disabled the driver for the built in video card

that PC MOBO has and on board (MOBO) GPU Integrated graphics using GeForce 7100 see the 15pin VGA port on the rear, ? Make sure the chip is there, some versions of PC by HP do not have the chip, (only searching at HP.com with your full service tag will tell you what version a6300 you have. If the chip is there, leave the battery alone, 3vdc, ok,? and go in to BIOS> and change the bit. oops screens dead (chicken and egg deal) but if set wrong, and if defaults is external VGA card then you are in trouble, i for one do no know the defaults of 100000, HP machines, the F5 key for BIOS sets BIOS to defaults. not sure it can be done blindly here is the bit you cant reach, and now you know why. no card. advanced tab.

It could be the motherboard, try resetting the the bios first by either taking the lithium cmos battery out and then replacing after 30 secs or finding the the cmos jumber and unshort it for 30 secs, and reboot the mechine.

If the same and no monitor responce then the onboard graphic electronics may have failed, the motherboard does have a AGP expansion slot which you may want to test with a graphics card to see if that will work.

If you find that you do have to replace the motherboard, try to find one that uses the same processor and memory that you already have, that way you will keep expence down to a minimal.

Replacing the motherboard will mean you will have to contact microsoft to give you the installation codes for the operating system to work with the new motherboard, when you boot for the first time with the new motherboard fitted you will have to phone the number on the screen to reregister the system just follow the instructions, it is quite self explanetry.

Once all booted up and drivers installed the computer should run as normal, as for the hp recovery disks it should still work as all the information on the disk is on the harddrive any way, the only thing you would need to do is keep the motherboard installation disk with all the drivers on.
hope this helps.

This has everything to do with the old, busted TV and nothing to do with your Pavillion. It's not sane to use VGA or DVI >> QAM (if your TV can even handle that.)

1. this sounds like a failing mother board.
2.Needs replacement.

Sounds to me like you're having one of two possible problems, first possibility is the video card burned out, second being the power supply died out. When you turn on your computer do you hear your harddrive make any sound(usually hear a bit of a louder sound similar to when you first put a cd in the disk drive) if not then it might be your power supply died out, if everything sounds normal then it might just be the video card. There are ways to swap out those pieces, but wouldn't recommend it to you if you're not too tech savvy, so what I suggest is you send it back to HP if you're still under warranty and see if they fix the issue for you.

If you are willing to try and fix it yourself you can order a power supply and/or video card from websites like www.tigerdirect.com or www.newegg.com, and to learn how to replace the parts go here(for video card)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_rwIbVNrQ and for the power supply go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzolRkN7Eew

For the first one, you need to enter BIOS and set the HDD settings. Maybe you can automatic detect it once and then the system knew where to load system from. If it can see the hard disk and reads it but no operating system found, then you may need to check the operating system on your hard disk.
For the second one, I do think it is better to upgrade to a upper level OS such as Windows 7. While you have Vista you will have better deal with Windows 7. If you do have a agreement with Microsoft to have newer OS for free in a certain period, you can get Windows 7 for free. If you don't have that agreement, you can get Upgrade version of windows 7 with a huge discount if you have Vista.
You can actually back up your data to an wim file on vista and restore all the data and settings after the upgrading. But be sure to keep a full backup of your hard disk and everything just in case.
You can enter BIOS and make sure booting from CD first. Then there is a key you need to press very early in the booting process to launch the recovery. There is also a factory default restore you can use. Did you call HP to find out what the key is and how to use factory default restoration? You can always plug the hard disk to other computer to back up the data and then restore to factory default and put the data back.

check the graphics card is working by plugging in another card known to be good
check on another monitor to see if you get a signal
check if the cpu heatsink is getting warm and the fan is spinning.

If all check out, remove ram modules and try to reboot, if you get any beeps other than one beep, the fault lies in the ram modules
If you get no beeps, I'd say that the motherboard is dead

the monitor should still provide a display. contact customer service , and only tell them, after attempting to reload windows from a recovery partition you are getting a code purple popup, requesting you contact the manufacturer. ask that you speak to a hardware specialist and tell him you have ran the utility software and everything checks out. by using the term code purple they will most certainly ship you a box with a return shipping label in efforts to repair. the paper work they ship you will indicate that this is a warrantied issue and you will not be charged.

deff. i could bet 99.9999 percent you got a saver virus that did this . there is a easy fix. when u turn the power on do u see the beginning of boot up were it says f12 for setup. if so u would be able to click on boot options and reinstall windows with a windows cd (xp,vista or seven) if this does nto allow you a good way to check if its the mother board or not. if u take the memory out of your motherboard and start computer you should here 6 beeps. if you do not here 6 beeps this tells us its the mother board

I am not an expert but when I face such a situation I try to clean the junk files from computer and registry by using a good software. This really increase the speed of my computer. You did not mention which windows are you using? Make sure that the keyboard and mouse are properly connected with the CPU. I think the driver files are corrupt and you need to update them.

New one on me too sorry i have no suggestions other than try a different brand ethernet card or possibly the new one you have is faulty. Could you please post when you do find the solution im very curious now......good luck from Scott

You should see first the RAM modules. eject one and try to start the pc without that. If starts you have to replace that module. If dont, try with the other one. do the same with HDD and each Motherboard periferic (DVD, Card reader etc.)

Good luck!

when at startup at blue screen and hp logo continuosly tap F10 key and it will take you to inbuilt feature of system recovery. follow the instructions and it will format and reinstall your c drive. Its because your windows has crashed.

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Hello,

an addition 2GB will be enough for your system.

Take care.