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Do you have on board sound and a sound card in your computer? If so make sure your using the card and not the on board.What are your system specs. I

Have you tried to run a Malware and Virus scan. It almost sounds like something is robbing your system of resources. You can also try to go into control panel and Admin tools and select Performance monitor and when it starts to hang see if you can locate what is causing the problem. At least...

Have you tried to setup one of your hard drives without the neighbors hard drive hooked up at all? That hard drive may be causing errors and not letting your hard drive install properly. Here is a link that may help you out. Ultimate Boot CD - Overview

Sounds like your Boot sector is toast. Have you tried last known good configuration? What is your Operating System?

Are you trying to install it from within windows? if so try to boot of the install disk. That may work then.

I have a trick I do for this exact thing. I make a fake programX86 foolder on the other drive and just point all my apps and games to this folder. It has been working good for me for years now.

Do you run win XP or 7 on it? You could do a backup of all your stuff and reinstall windows. But I would make sure I had all the drivers first.

You could try and read the motherboard book and see if a BIOS setting could cause this.

I'm sure you have thought of this but did you go into msconfig and see what was running at startup. How many things are running in background? What Kind of computer does she have. If i couldn't resolve it I would try a complete reinstall. If its still bad its probably hardware.

I don't think this is worth having a long debate over. It has always been a hot topic. If the Mods deem that having a copy of windows and a legal key is not legal then who are we to argue. All I know is if you have a copy of Windows 7 Home for instance and you use the key on the side of your...

That is not considered piracyif he has a key.

So i assume you tried one stick of ram at a time. Still no boot or Bios? Have you tried the bios reset or a battery pull to see if you can access Bios after you try this.

So even in onboard perfs it wont allow you to select onboard video and disable or select pcie slot. I tried to find more info on the hp site you linked to but there support sucks. The manuals section is lacking for sure. Have you tried there on line chat. I found this link Adding or...

I'm not sure how to help you with this problem. I haven't had to mess with vista for a long time. But what do you mean having to pay for windows 7 a second time. You shouldn't have to. Windows Vista is a very problematic OS. It was one of those in between Os,s kind of like ME. Really not a good...

Dig you try the del key. Below text is from the manual. Press DEL to enter Setup Menu, F11 to enter Boot Menu If the message disappears before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup, restart the system by turning it OFF and On or pressing the RESET button. You may also restart the system...