Computer not loading past initialization screen

[PolishPanda]

Hi!

I'm having some trouble with my HP Pavilion laptop. Before today I haven't started the laptop up for at least four months and it has just been sitting on my bookshelf that entire time. Two days before I put the laptop on my bookshelf, I had to replace the hard drive since it had failed. I did a clean install of XP and it worked totally fine for those two days.

Now my problem is as follows: whenever I try to start up the computer, the initialization screen shows, but nothing happens after that. The screen goes blank and after letting the computer sit like that for 15 minutes, nothing still happened. Since HP laptops have a feature called "QuickPlay" that allows DVDs to be played without starting an OS, I tried loading that up as well, but it didn't work. I don't know, however, where the software for that feature is kept though. It might just as well be kept on the hard drive.

Could anyone help me out with this? Specs are as follows:

Model: HP Pavilion dv8000
System Board ID: 30A6 (don't know if this is relevant)
Processor: Intel T2500 2.0 GHz
BIOS Version: F.13 (PhoenixBIOS)

Thanks in advance guys!

Conrad

 

[montag451]

Hi,
When you say 'nothing happens' after the initialization screen.... just to make sure, do you get the RAM counting, or the screen that displays what IDE devices are attached?

Can you go into BIOS (might be F2) and check that your hdd is showing.
Also, try downloading MEMTEST, burn iso to cd and see if you can boot to that. If you can, then run it overnight.