No POST for Pavilion laptop zt1000

[Ernest V. Adams]

My laptop froze right after booting up XP. I attempted to reboot, but only received status lights and it will not go into POST and a blank LCD screen. If I let it sit for a while it will go into post and then freeze while booting up XP displayed on LCD screen. I'm thinking it might be a CMOS battery problem... I'd appreciate any input... thanks.

[Samuel Lleva]

Did you try going into SAFE mode? While starting up press F8. I've had the same rebooting problem after upgrading my graphics card once or something else. I was able to fix it through SAFE mode but forgot how..

[Ernest V. Adams]

Turn out to be bad memory... removed memory and all is ok.