20 Most Recent HP Pavilion 524w (DB280AR#ABA) PC Desktop Questions & Answers

Which operating system ??.. HP Pavilion Recovery Partition Accessing the recovery partition on your HP Pavilion laptop allows you to restore your computer to speed it up, eliminate a virus or repair your Windows operating system. The Recovery Manager program makes it possible to restore your laptop to its settings as of a previous date or restore your computer to its original factory settings, which will erase all of your installed programs and personal data. Using the recovery partition allows you to bypass the hassle of keeping track of recovery discs, which could be damaged in storage, rendering them useless when you need them. Turn on or restart your HP Pavilion laptop. Press "F11" when the "Press <F11> for recovery" message appears during the HP Pavilion boot process. Select "Recovery Manager" from your list of recovery options and press "Enter." The Recovery Manger program will open on your screen, and you can begin the recovery process. Access Recovery Manager Within Windows Click the "Start" icon or "Start" button in the lower left corner of your Windows home screen. Click "All Programs" and then "Recovery Manager." Click "Recovery Manager" again to open the Recovery Manager program on your HP Pavilion laptop. using the hp recovery manager in windows 7or While restarting the computer keep tapping on the F10 key on the next screen you will find start system recovery , and on the next screen you will find advanced options in advanced option you will find an option for Destructive Recovery.. click that If you are not able to run the recovery on the computer as above then you will need no use a set of recovery cds..... if you dont have them you can get it from HP.. or HP Desktop factory settings The HP Recovery Partition that comes pre-installed on most new HPs is like built-in insurance if your system becomes unstable or fails. If the problem is severe enough, you may not be able to start the HP Desktop Recovery Manager from Windows but you can start it manually by following the steps below. Disconnect all peripheral devices and power on the computer. Press the F11 key after the computer first powers on to start the HP Recovery Manager. Follow the on-screen instructions to back up recoverable files on the hard drive to an external drive or media. Continue following the instructions to recover the hard drive to its original factory condition. Click "Finish" when the recovery is complete. Reconnect devices and reboot the computer. Reinstall software and update Windows and HP to current settings. Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows Vista)

Which operating system ?????..... The HP Recovery Partition that comes pre-installed on most new HPs is like built-in insurance if your system becomes unstable or fails. If the problem is severe enough, you may not be able to start the HP Desktop Recovery Manager from Windows but you can start it manually by following the steps below. Disconnect all peripheral devices and power on the computer. Press the F11 key after the computer first powers on to start the HP Recovery Manager. Follow the on-screen instructions to back up recoverable files on the hard drive to an external drive or media. Continue following the instructions to recover the hard drive to its original factory condition. Click "Finish" when the recovery is complete. Reconnect devices and reboot the computer. Reinstall software and update Windows and HP to current settings. Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows Vista) HP Pavilion Recovery Partition Accessing the recovery partition on your HP Pavilion laptop allows you to restore your computer to speed it up, eliminate a virus or repair your Windows operating system. The Recovery Manager program makes it possible to restore your laptop to its settings as of a previous date or restore your computer to its original factory settings, which will erase all of your installed programs and personal data. Using the recovery partition allows you to bypass the hassle of keeping track of recovery discs, which could be damaged in storage, rendering them useless when you need them. Turn on or restart your HP Pavilion laptop. Press "F11" when the "Press <F11> for recovery" message appears during the HP Pavilion boot process. Select "Recovery Manager" from your list of recovery options and press "Enter." The Recovery Manger program will open on your screen, and you can begin the recovery process. Access Recovery Manager Within Windows Click the "Start" icon or "Start" button in the lower left corner of your Windows home screen. Click "All Programs" and then "Recovery Manager." Click "Recovery Manager" again to open the Recovery Manager program on your HP Pavilion laptop. using the hp recovery manager in windows 7

Replace the Power supply, or the Power switch.

Which type of wire's are they? If you are talking about mobo onboard speaker and front led cables. It should be written on motherboard itself. You need to take it to bright light and try to find out. If it is speaker cables it should be in spkr word. If iti s front LED then it should be colour coding on motherboard. Good luck with that.

The compatibility isn't with the memory, it's with the motherboard and its chipset. In your case the motherboard is a FIC AM-37 which has an VIA KM266A chipset - an extremely old chipset . The only processors accepted are AMD Athlon XP of the first generation of which you already have the fastest version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Athlon(tm)_XP_3200%2B#Athlon_XP_.22Palomino.22_.28Model_6.2C_180_nm.29
So no, it's not possible to upgrade it. You will have to buy another motherboard-processor combo.

Hello Mike, Hi, may I suggest you try first to defrag your hard drive, Im sure when you power on your PC, the hard disk led keeps on blinking, your hard drive may have developed bad tracks and sectors, this slow moving process tends to go forever.

Defragmenting and checkdisk can find faults and bad sectors and tracks that slows down the performance of your PC.

Reformatting should be done if your defragmentation procedure fails to speed up your PC.

Try to run an antivirus program, which may help speed up your PC by detecting viruses, that tends to load forever, or slow down the booting process.

The beeps are coming form your computer tower chassis. Your computer either wants you to remove and clean the contacts on the graphics card or it wants you to remove the RAM modules and clean the contacts. Install one at a time in alternating slots. To test if maybe one of the RAM modules is faulty.

See my published guide entitled My Computer is not turning on!!! Is it dead!!! No POST!!!

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damnor01

ok if the computer works for about 10 minutes then shuts down then i would say its not the hard drive but the cpu fan. when your cpu heats up it shuts down when it reaches a certain temperature to protect itself. open your case and check that the cpu fan is working if not check it is plugged in correctly by unplugging it then plugging it back in, somtimes the connections can become oxidised and loose contact. if your cpu fan is working then let me know and we will try something else. let me know how you go.

hello, i am assuming that you are looking the audio drivers.
see the link below for the drivers for this model.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=296667

if your question is not regarding the drivers please reply with more clarification.

hope this helps
regards

AmarSondhi

On the outside, disconnect the power-cable, then the keyboard/mouse/video/audio/USB/printer cables.

Disconnect all the cables from the power-supply to the devices (disk, CD-ROM) and to the motherboard.

On the outside-back, remove the screws holding the power-supply in position, and then remove the power-supply.

Remove the screw holding each add-in card (audio, video, modem).
Remove each of the add-in card(s).

Remove the ribbon-cables from the motherboard to the diskette & disk-drive & CD-ROM.

Look for screws holding the motherboard to the case.
Remove those screws, and gently lift out the motherboard.

remove both side panels by unscrewing them at the back then remove the screws holding in the drive and unplug the drive.

There is a master power switch switch on the back of some computers, just under where the power cable plugs in.

the sound drivers need reinstalled.

Try this:
- Click on Start and select run
- Type in msconfig and click ok
- Click on Start up
- And you may uncheck the unnecessary programs
- and Apply it.

delete and reinstall your email software.

It depends what program you used to add it in the first place. Open the software and look for settings, or just uninstall it.

desktop or laptop. ? external Keyboard or internal

no pc told, Pavilion means zerothat name is is used on desktops and laptops for agesthe HP has diagnostics so run those. HP.com tells how.not told desktop or laptops. just 1 word."Screen"first Pavilion was 1995

HP.COM << go there. And ask a real question ,you did not.

learn to google mate. this is no secret,gee millions sold. A6Y530A the partsurfer shows true model, and fails this is the only post here ever asking for reverse code lookups on models fake, and is not easy in vast cases I guess you have no such PC, (look like) so why ask this>? what prompted this quest>? not told why not ask seller for photos of it if this is a pre sales question , is it>? google and bing and HP all show that model # is BOGUS so go back to your sell and ask the we can not guess PCs ever. HP product ID# is best on the service tag for SURE. where did you see this number, not told. or that number is some 20+ year old COMPAQ PC ,lost in the sands of time, and no google hits. you posted to HP forum, (not real) Hp.com is real