Hi folks,

I have here a HP Pavilion XT973. System would hang on boot for the customer, so they brought it to me. I could not get it to boot anyway either, so I restored it with the restore partition built into the machine. I did the destructive one - it wiped the drive and reinstalled everything.

Well, it is still hanging on boot. It hangs trying to boot into safe mode, or even safe mode command prompt. The recovery goes fine, no problems.

The hard drive checks out (ran WD lifeguard on it)

Any suggestions?

It is naturally out of HP warranty.

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