A friend gave me a laptop to look at. About 90% of the time when you hit the power button the power led will come on and the fans will start up but nothing else happens. No beeps, no BIOS messages, ...

Then I cover problems that can occur during the boot process and show you how to use you new knowledge to troubleshoot those problems. The Initial Turn-on POST, Power On Self Test, is what every ...

Hewlett-Packard regularly releases BIOS or firmware updates for its Pavilion line of desktop systems and recommends that users update the BIOS on the machines if experiencing problems. In most cases, ...