Destroyed my 6 year old laptop I think

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So I tried installing openSUSE 13.2 on my 6 year old spare laptop. I deleted all partitions and created a


260 mb /boot   EXT4
40 gb   /         BTRFS
4 gb    /swap
190gb+ /home XFS

and now when turning on the laptop it just goes to the screen where you see the hp logo (because its an hp laptop), on the bottom left it says to press esc if you want to see more options. Pressing escape doesn’t do anything and I don’t think any buttons do anything so I can’t even get into the motherboard memory

Is it possible to fix this?

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Is the boot order in the BIOS set correctly? It’s unlikely that your laptop happened to fail right after you installed the OS.

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It seems to me you are saying you cannot even enter the BIOS screen.

It is very unlikely – almost impossible – that this can be caused by deleting partitions and creating new ones or creating an install of openSUSE or any other operating system.

This appears to be a BIOS or other hardware problem that – it seems – occurred by coincidence during the same time frame.

First, try removing the drive from the laptop and try booting that way. What do you see then? The same thing? Can you press the key to enter the BIOS and get to the BIOS screen that way?

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I had a DVD burner fail on my desktop PC before, and I remember it hung my system at the BIOS screen. I’m sure the same type of issue could occur on a laptop. As soon as I unplugged the drive, my system booted. So, there are devices and hardware that can hang the bus as the machine is going through POST.

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I had two HP laps over time (and will NEVER have one again). The HP BIOS is extremely poor quality and reduced in features.

I think you should find a BIOS on the HP download site and prepare a DOS boot option for it (CD/DVD or usb-stick), boot on it, and ‘reload defaults’. I hope for you, you can boot on such now!

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On Thu 18 Dec 2014 05:16:02 AM CST, workisfun wrote:

Is it possible to fix this?

Hi
F9 for boot options, F10 for the BIOS. It also depends on the Fn key
setting, so it may be Fn+F9 or Fn+F10.

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Different MBOs have different key sequences needed/used to get to the BIOS. However, the most common seem to be either F2, F8, F10, or F12. Press these in sequence during the POST - one right after the other and see if that doesn’t get you in the BIOS.

Once in the BIOS, ensure you have the boot order set correctly and give it a play - see if that doesn’t fix the issue.

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I had something similar happen when installing 13.2 on a Compaq (which is owned by HP I think) and I outlined it with this post : https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/498655-Laptop-won-t-boot-past-the-mfr-POST-splash-screen

In summary, although the timing was suspicious it was in fact a failed hard drive. I disconnected the hard disk and could get to the BIOS and boot to live media just fine, but with it plugged in it would not go past the POST screen.

On the bright side, I replaced my hard disk with an SSD :wink: