My friend got a laptop Hp pavilion dv4000. The person who he got it from broke the screen completely so i ordered a new one. put it on works great but when i turn the pc on i get the blue screen of death after windows starts to load. i tried to change the boot order but the pc asks me for a bios password witch i don't know. So when i turn the pc on i can change where it boots from by pressing ESC but when i click the cd drive it just has the black screen like for a min and then loads it from the hard drive. What is the problem is it the dvd im using as a boot or the pc?
		
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	We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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	xp home edition was installed before i downloaded a iso same xp home edition put it onto a dvd and it wont boot from that for some reason any help? We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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	could the hard drive be broken? We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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	Remove the battery to clear cmos, this should give you a default BIOS 
 
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	no it didn't work could this be because its a dvd not a cd i checked the dvd on a different pc and it works there We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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	have you tried a linux bootable cd to see if the drive will read/boot a cd? might be a picky drive. --
 "a lot of people are better dead" - prisoner KSC2-303
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	thanks never mind i got the pc to turn on in safe mode but still having problems with booting from the dvd to reinstall everything We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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	how do i do that? download a linux bootable cd? We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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	most linux distros are bootable/runnable off the iso. knoppix, ubuntu, etc... you download the iso, burn to cd, and instead of install, choose run from cd. --
 "a lot of people are better dead" - prisoner KSC2-303
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	how would i make something boot of a flash drive or hard drive? We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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	some newer motherboards will allow booting off a flash drive, go into the bios and see if usb device is listed in the boot order. hard drive booting? do you mean a usb connected hard drive? might work if the bios allowed it to be selected, and the drive had an os installed already. --
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	my problem is i put the xp home edition on a dvd instead of cd and that's why it wouldn't want to read it thanks for ur help. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)
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