I have an HP Pavilion dv2618ca laptop. It came with a pre-installed version of Vista Home, and I recently did a clean install to Windows 7 32bits. After installation, Windows 7 was running fine, but I think the laptop was overheating as there were a few incidents of computer shutting down unexpectedly and restarting. Then a few weeks after that, it suddenly rebooted itself and the graphic card seemed to stop woring (the aero view was not showing and the color and resolution were not correct). When I restarted the computer again, I suddenly got the black screen with a blinking underscore.
Since then Windows 7 was not able to boot at all. I have managed to backup all my important files, but when I tried to reinstall Windows, my laptop was unable to format the hard drive. I tried with W7, Vista and XP respectively, none of it worked. I also tried to use command prompt to manually format, didn't work. But I was able to run Unbuntu from USB drive and format the hardrive with Unbuntu. Then I switched back to Windows and it still gave me a message about unable to partition the drive.
So I changed the hard drive, reinstalled XP, and got the same error message. Now Windows wouldn't boot, my HD is wiped clean. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong with my laptop? Or at least if there's a way to run a diagnostic test for the hardware to find the problem?
My laptop specs are here:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-55
250GB HD
2G RAM
I'm not sure what graphic card it was... I think it's the standard Intel one...
Since then Windows 7 was not able to boot at all. I have managed to backup all my important files, but when I tried to reinstall Windows, my laptop was unable to format the hard drive. I tried with W7, Vista and XP respectively, none of it worked. I also tried to use command prompt to manually format, didn't work. But I was able to run Unbuntu from USB drive and format the hardrive with Unbuntu. Then I switched back to Windows and it still gave me a message about unable to partition the drive.
So I changed the hard drive, reinstalled XP, and got the same error message. Now Windows wouldn't boot, my HD is wiped clean. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong with my laptop? Or at least if there's a way to run a diagnostic test for the hardware to find the problem?
My laptop specs are here:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-55
250GB HD
2G RAM
I'm not sure what graphic card it was... I think it's the standard Intel one...