I have an HP model P6103Y (64 bit Vista) that "Won't Boot?"
First thought was the harddrive (SATA) was the problem, however when I took the drive out of the loop - he is what I tried:
• I was able to boot a dvd to to dos screen (sort of a repair disk.)*
• when I tried to load - Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 I initally got to the "Green logo screen" when I attempted to load the GUI screen it complained about video hardware error. - I then tried to get it to load with the DOS screen - it would not load.
• Tried 2 different Vista (64) repair/rescue disks - screen showed windows loading and then blue screen.
It appears to be a video problem. Noticed several Caps on motherboard slightly crowning.
Thinking that it could be some type of infection, remove the hard drive and ran AVG and Malwarebytes against drive - report it was clean.
Thoughts: the video system on the motherboard is "broken."
My question to the readers - I am going to get/try a PCI Express X16 video card and see if this works.
For those thinking, I ran the somewhat "simple" boot diagnostics when the computer boots, all items listed reported no problem (Memory, hd, etc.)
Any one attemp to do fix problem with a video card? Anyone know where to purchase a cheap new motherboard?