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HP Pavilion 533w will not boot.
« on: May 13, 2010, 11:49:58 PM »
I have an 8 yr old hp pavilion 533w with windows xp sp2. It froze up on my son while he was gaming. He turned it off with the button on front of tower. Now when I turn it back on the blue hp invent screen comes up, it emits a screeching noise from inside the tower and will not load any farther. The cd tray will open and close and the fans run. I open the tower and locatedthe source of the screech. It is coming from a tall, round resister/diode at the bottom right of the board. I don't know if this is from a program error or a bad processsor or HD. I'm posting this from my iPhone so any help getting my pc back up would be greatly appreciated. Thx.   

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Re: HP Pavilion 533w will not boot.
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2010, 01:05:14 PM »
I'm not sure what this diode thing is do you mind taking a picture of it with your Iphone and some info about your computer would help and the os.

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    Re: HP Pavilion 533w will not boot.
    « Reply #2 on: May 28, 2010, 01:27:10 PM »
    You might have a bad board. Go ahead and send it to HP.