Blank screen when booting Win XP Home

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ed morales

I have a HPZT1180 running XP Home ed. i have been having a
problem booting up my laptop. When trying to boot up the
system, i get about 3 seconds worth of activity, then the
system will stop and sit at a blank screen. This is
before, the HP symbol or the HP Home Edition banner. The
system will have to be shut down then restarted between 3-
20 x's till it will boot correctly. What can i do to get
this corrected and boot correctly on the 1st time.

Thanks.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have a HPZT1180 running XP Home ed. i have been having a
problem booting up my laptop. When trying to boot up the
system, i get about 3 seconds worth of activity, then the
system will stop and sit at a blank screen. This is
before, the HP symbol or the HP Home Edition banner. The
system will have to be shut down then restarted between 3-
20 x's till it will boot correctly. What can i do to get
this corrected and boot correctly on the 1st time.

Thanks.
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What can I say it's an H/P.There good for that.Try--
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start--- run---type in msconfig---OK---make sure the
bullet is in the normal startup mode if not put it there
then apply ok then restart when it comes up check the box
dont show again and ok.If this don't work post another
post got plenty of things that can cause your H/P to do
this.
 
start--- run---type in msconfig---OK---make sure the
bullet is in the normal startup mode if not put it there
then apply ok then restart when it comes up check the box
dont show again and ok.If this don't work post another
post got plenty of things that can cause your H/P to do
this.
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Sounds like an HP hardware problem, not an operating system issue. There are
plenty of blogs about HP ZT11xx systems that have problems. Suggest you
contact them. Hope you're still in warranty (basic or extended) or else
you'll have to limp along until you can afford another system. My experience
doing break/fix hardware support has been that for both reliability &
support, IBM ThinkPad's are #1, Dell Latitude series are #2. (Note this
doesn't include Dell Inspiron series!)

Best wishes.
 
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