System stopped working ~4 monthes ago-- wouldnt boot, after power on it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left corner of the screen. Fan on/power on.
1st time: Recovered with recovery DVD, started from scratch. Seemed back to normal.
About a week later the system would no longer boot again-similiar blinking cursor.
I can enter BIOS/setup etc but nothing changes when setting boot order to cdrom first etc... I've tried software clearing of CMOS but will do hardware tonight. I tried reseating the RAM in case it was a bad connection there. No change. The other connections seem in order as well...
I figured harddrive was of issue... I put in a new harddrive today and tried to run the XP recovery DVD that came with system--no luck. So it wasnt the harddrive after-all...
Any ideas??? The computer has hardly been used, seems strange that it would stop working after a few times use.
HP offered little guidance other than 'take it to an authorized repair center'-- ha. Been down that road before...