I tried a couple of things last night - based upon advice on the HP website. Unfortunately, I am having no luck. The keyboard appears to be totally dead. I'm told we may have blown the keyboard bios chip on the motherboard and if so, it is toast. I have one more option to try. I am going to plug in a usb keyboard and see if I get any further. Sadly, it looks like my only option may be to offer parts of the poor thing on ebay. It was a really dandy laptop but I think it got zapped by static electricity. My son said he reached out to turn down the speaker volume and literally got a spark off the end of his finger that hurt. After that it acted oddly and gave him error messages about something having changed - he remembers ATI being referred to and thought it must be related to the video but, it did let him shut it down normally. Now it won't restart properly. It beeps but I am not hearing a pattern to the beeps. It sounds to me like it just beeps continually for a minute or so. Then it goes to a windows option screen that would permit me to start in safe mode if the keyboard worked. Once, last night it started in the setup screen but again I could not get it to do anything further as the keyboard would not let me move the highlighted item to access anything.
Randy -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]on Behalf Of my...@netscape.net Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:34 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Laptop problem That could be a possiblilty too, check the memory and if you have more that one memory stick, you could try swapping each one in the slots. Harry M 69 280 SE 72 350 SL 08 VW Passat 3.6 -----Original Message----- From: Loren Faeth <lfa...@leadingchange.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 5:17 pm Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Laptop problem On some BIOS three long beeps meant bad memory. But keep looking on the HP website or the BIOS mfgr website for the meaning of the beep code.? ? At 12:04 PM 1/5/2009, you wrote:? >Good idea. Had a quick look. Lots of info. Did not yet find the POST >info >that tells me what the beeping means.? >? >Randy? >? >-----Original Message-----? >From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com? >[mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]on Behalf Of LWB250? >Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:15 AM? >To: Mercedes Discussion List? >Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Laptop problem? >? >? >Go to the HP site, look up the support page for that model, then >search for >BIOS startup codes. That's the "beeps"? >that you're hearing on startup - the number and frequency of them >are telling >you what's wrong.? >? >Dan? >? >--- On Mon, 1/5/09, R A Bennell <b...@mts.net> wrote:? >? >From: R A Bennell <b...@mts.net>? >Subject: [MBZ] OT Laptop problem? >To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>? >Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 12:06 PM? >? >We have an HP Pavilion zd8000 laptop - about 4 years old. Has >always been >reliable.? >Yesterday something went wrong. It beeps (ie - beep, beep, beep - >for a long >while ) on startup and the keyboard? >appears to be dead. The screen comes up offering info on what to >press to get >into setup etc but pressing the keys? >does nothing. If one waits it will go to the screen that offers >windows >options for startup like safe mode but? >again the keys do nothing so one cannot get it to go any further.? >? >Any ideas on what I might check first? IE- are there any fuses or >that sort >of thing that might have popped? Any? >ideas on web sites that I might go to with my problem?? >? >Randy? >? >? >_______________________________________? >http://www.okiebenz.com? >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com? >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/? >? >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:? >http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com? >? >? >? >? >-------------- next part --------------? >An HTML attachment was scrubbed...? >URL: >><http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090105/67442b39/attachment.html>? >_______________________________________? >http://www.okiebenz.com? >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com? >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/? >? >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:? >http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com? >? >? >_______________________________________? >http://www.okiebenz.com? >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com? >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/? >? >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:? >http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com? ? Loren Faeth ? _______________________________________? http://www.okiebenz.com? For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com? To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/? ? To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:? http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090106/58dc579c/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
