blue screen at boot (hp)
hey,
i feel like a dummy. my mom-in-law has (had) a HP A335W pavilion desktop computer with only 256m of memory. for her birthday, i installed a single 1 gig stick into her computer. it ran fine for two days, then it went black. now, when she (i) boots it up it goes to a blue screen with f1=setup & f10=recovery. the computer is froze up and i cannot do anything but continuely restart the computer, no bias option at all. i have unpluged all components one at the time to no avail. there is no option to clear cmos. i have removed the battery overnight and reinstalled the following day, still same thing. i have replaced the memory stick with the original 256m, still no luck. when i turn in on, i get one beep, a pause, and then a trill of beeps that never stop. i did notice that one of the clamps on the CPU was broken, but the heat sink and fan seemed to be seated good. i really need to get this computer up and going to save face with my wife and mom-in-law.
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