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by romeo.mandanas 3 views

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After a storm-induced power outage, my HP Media Center PC m7167c would fail to boot from a complete shut off situation (turning on the button). The HP blue screen comes on with flickering lines and locks up. If I use the recovery CD, I can boot up Windows XP and everything seems to work. If I restart from Windows, it boots up okay. However, if I turn the PC completely off and try to boot by turn the button on, the same problem.

Sometimes I have to unplug the peripherals to boot from the recovery PC also.

Is this a BIOS problem or Bios battery problem?
Can anyone help?

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by oh smeg

Have you run any Tests of the HDD?

If not you can get a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD from here and test at the very least the HDD for function.

http://tinyurl.com/3jnpy

Col

by romeo.mandanas

I have tried PC doctor to scan the HDD and it passed. I am not sure what particular test needs to be run from the Ultimate boot CD. Once I get Windows XP booted up, everything is fine. It is only when I turn on the computer from the pushbutton.

by oh smeg

Either the HDD is failing and not holding the Magnetic Storage hence the inability to boot or the BIOS is not saving the HDD data and prevents the computer booting.

You should not have to reinstall any OS every time that you boot a computer from off.

So if you look at things from that prospective there is only the HDD/ BIOS or a possible fault in the Interface between the M'Board and HDD.

Col

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