Lunaki

I have owned a hp pavilion a545c for three years and it was running smoothly until a week ago. I purchased a new external iomega hd to backup all my data since I was planning to format the pc. It turns out that while I was in the middle of the transfer, the blue screen of death appears ( can't remember the message). I thought that it was one of those common system errors and that with a restart it would all be fixed. Boy was I wrong. I turned it on and it gave me the same error over and over again. I tried fixing it by going to the recovery console and fix the mbr and run fdisk- it didn't work. Even using the xp cd to delete the partition and start over didn't work. Somehow my hd was unknown in the device list.
I was running impatient and decided to format using dban. It wiped my harddrive clean but the same problem still remained. I still can't get xp to recognize my hd while bios does.

Another problem I'm facing is that I can't get the pc to recognize my keyboard while it gets to first screen. I tried with three different keyboard (two sp/2 ones and a brand new usb one).

Specs can be found here:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...n&printable=no

Computer_Doctor

Hi Lunaki,


Hmmm.....try clearing the cmos. Go to the HP website and see if you can find the instructions on how to clear the cmos. The cmos jumper is usually located near the bios battery on the motherboard, which is about a quarter sized.