I have an HP Pavilion 8113cl the problem is power. Starts just fine til window screen appears then shuts off. I can go into the bios sut as soon as it displays the machine shuts off. I've tried other

i checked the HP support website and according to HP's policies on bios passwords, they offer a paid service for the password removal

A Password is Required Causing the Computer to not Startup or Boot in Windows XP HP Pavilion dv4000 CTO Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
**see the section of "Power On"

i read in some discussions that the service costs ~$35.

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SOFIA,WHEN WINDOWS BOOT READ IN THE DOWN EDGE OF THE SCREEN WICH TANGENT TO PRESS.TAP ON IT ONE TIME EVERY SECOND TIL YOU GET TO SET UP.

hello,my hp pavilion dv 6000 is giving me problem no sound, no bio-sserial number, even sometimes blue screen..

Turn on and keep pressing the F8 key
If nothing shows up on the screen after a minute shut down, restart & kep hitting the F10 key
A recovery screen should appear by pressing one of these keys
If the screen appears pick a recovery job to restore your computer to a day when it worked well last

Well if you got an error related to the hard drive then its better to check the hard drive whether is faulty or not..

1.Shut the system down.
2.Restart the system and tap on the F10 key for while till we dont get to the set up utility.
3.As soon as we get to the BIOS screen try locating an optionw which reads as DIAGNOSTICS, it would be the third option at the top,
4.Select that option using the arrow keys on the keyboard and hit enter.
5.It would show us an option which reads as Primary Hard drice self test..
6.Hit enter again to start the test.
7.There are 2 types of tests.
8.As soon as we start the test it would start the SHORT TEST first which would take a couple of minutes.
9.If it comes with any errors then call hp and ask them to replace the hard drive.
10.If the short test passes and the comprehensive test starts then let that test run completely which might take an hour as well..
11.If this test goes fine then the hard drive is fine and you are facing trouble because of the graphices card installed on the system.
12. I am providing you a couple of drivers which you can try installing depending on the operating system installed on the system.but you need to first check the hard drive and then perform these steps..

I believe the system was shipped with a 64 Bit Vista which NVIDIA graphics card.

I am providing you the drivers for that

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp41501-42000/sp41696.exe

You can also try to update the BIOS which would the next step if the above steps does not help..

The link is :

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp45001-45500/sp45138.exe


Hope this works

Regards
KEN

go into bios next time it starts and turn off all power settings, same in control panel in windows and turn off sleepmode and hibernate.

if it was the video card ...it will appear something on screen like Bios...when accessed..and affect only the installation ...I suspect the lcd connection
so...assuming is nothing inside...take a look on this tutorial
http://www.laptop-repair.info/laptop_screen_repair.html

Compatibility problem??
HP PAVILION ZV6000
HP PAVILION ZV5000
HP PAVILION ZV5000 SERIES

Hi

Reflashing the bios doesn't make any difference.

Check in the BIOS Screen whether notebook scree has the same issue if it is the same then it is a hardware issue if it is fine in the bios screen then need to run the hdd and memory test

After the test result we can decide next steps

> If hdd and memory test passes - then reload the os.

To login to bios - Reboot the system and keep tap on f10

That blinking cursor is the way in which the BIOS is telling you that Windows is missing - its most critical, core files have been corrupted beyond repair. The only thing you can do is to reinstall using the recovery cd or your own Windows install disk.