Media Centre Problem

rocky289 · 07-24-2008, 11:27 PM

Have a HP Pavilion a1555a Media Center here which would only boot up to a black screen with the mouse curser showing.
It would boot to desktop in safe mode, so with the help of MalwareBytes I was able to get rid of AntiviXP08 & it then booted up fine.
I then tidyed up the system, uninstalled AVG & Nortons, ran Ccleaner etc. I then installed Avast Home & Super Antispyware, done the updates & rebooted. We are now back to the black screen & now it won't start in safe mode. I removed the HD, slaved it to another system & scanned it with Avast home. Got heaps more trojans, spyware, worms & even a virus all from the documents folder. Also scanned it with Antispyware but got nothing else.
Put it back in, still no go. Tryed the HP recovery from the HD partition which only took me to a dos prompt. Ran chkdsk repair which made some changes but didn't help. Havent got a XP Media Center CD of course so did a repair install from a XP pro CD. Looked quite promising but after the reboot, back to the black screen.
There is a windows key on the case so at present are trying to track down a Media center CD to do a full install.
Any other ideas would be appreciated.

eye_isasloner · 07-25-2008, 12:21 AM

Hey friend,

i have a HP Pavilion NB pc dv5000, i joined the forum cause i had a recent crash-OLE not working.

One thing i almost did in desperation when i rebooted & received black screen suggesting i insert the OS CD-ROM waas to ask a friend for such a disk,bad move, while on another HP, came across some info. from HP made mention that a retail OS CD or from amother pc would rendermany programs unresponsive.
Before making that move, might be good to double check
if another CD-ROM is safe to run.Hope this was useful,& wish you a sppeedy recovery!

07-24-2008, 11:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
rocky289 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 14 OS: winxp	Media Centre Problem Have a HP Pavilion a1555a Media Center here which would only boot up to a black screen with the mouse curser showing. It would boot to desktop in safe mode, so with the help of MalwareBytes I was able to get rid of AntiviXP08 & it then booted up fine. I then tidyed up the system, uninstalled AVG & Nortons, ran Ccleaner etc. I then installed Avast Home & Super Antispyware, done the updates & rebooted. We are now back to the black screen & now it won't start in safe mode. I removed the HD, slaved it to another system & scanned it with Avast home. Got heaps more trojans, spyware, worms & even a virus all from the documents folder. Also scanned it with Antispyware but got nothing else. Put it back in, still no go. Tryed the HP recovery from the HD partition which only took me to a dos prompt. Ran chkdsk repair which made some changes but didn't help. Havent got a XP Media Center CD of course so did a repair install from a XP pro CD. Looked quite promising but after the reboot, back to the black screen. There is a windows key on the case so at present are trying to track down a Media center CD to do a full install. Any other ideas would be appreciated.

07-25-2008, 12:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
eye_isasloner Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Win.XP Pro.	Re: Media Centre Problem Hey friend, i have a HP Pavilion NB pc dv5000, i joined the forum cause i had a recent crash-OLE not working. One thing i almost did in desperation when i rebooted & received black screen suggesting i insert the OS CD-ROM waas to ask a friend for such a disk,bad move, while on another HP, came across some info. from HP made mention that a retail OS CD or from amother pc would rendermany programs unresponsive. Before making that move, might be good to double check if another CD-ROM is safe to run.Hope this was useful,& wish you a sppeedy recovery!