That's good that you have the CD and made sure it works in another system. If it doesn't come in handy for this, it may come in hand some other day. Now it sounds like you might have some hardware issue. Do you know the system make and model?

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Does the system make any beeps when you power it up? The beeps are codes that can help you figure out what is wrong.

Generally, one short beep on power up is a good sign. If you are hearing other beeps, try to describe them in writing as best you can. One short, two short, one short one long, three shorts, etc. Describe the beeps like this: beep-beep-beep (3 shorts) beep-beeeeeeeep (1 short, 1 long) beeeeeeep-beeeeeeep-beeeeeeep (3 longs) beep-beep (2 shorts) Tell us the make and model of your laptop or any details you can so we can give you the best advice. If you don't have the Recovery Console CD in, does it stay power up (even with the other error message) or does it shut off? If the fans are running, that is good and if it was me, I would unplug the laptop from the wall, remove the battery and open up whatever panel on the bottom I could open up with out too much force (you may need a screwdriver) and wiggle or unplug and replug everything I see (that unplugs), that looks like a connection, put it back together and see if it powers up properly then. You would just want to remove simple things like the RAM modules, any cable you can easily unplug/replug, the hard drive, etc.

Just doing one thing at a time so you don't get mixed up. Unplug it, plug it back in. Somebody else may have some other ideas. Send your nonworking computers to me and I will fix them or salvage them for parts and donate a working system to charity or someone that can use it. Hp Pavilion G6 Recovery Disc Download here.

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Found an old dinosaur(HP Pavillion) in my house the other day an wasn't working from a while back(I think since 07) and decided to fix it. Turned out the ram stick was not properly inserted.I fixed the RAM problem but another problem came up. It took me to a screen where it gave me 5 options. One was start windows normally, two was safe mode, three was safe mode with networking, four is safe mode with command prompt, last is last known good configuration.(Remember its been a while since I turned it on)I selected start windows normally but showed the windows loading screen for like two seconds and gives me a blue screen. I asked my uncle what it was and he told me It was probably infected with a virus and was best to re-install Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. I've been looking every where but no luck.