Boot Hp Pavilion From Usb

[Kym Wash]

Iused Macrium Reflect to make a backup of my HP Pavilion laptop. Macrium Reflect uses a USB stick which is set up to boot the computer when there is a need to install the backup. I thought I had told the computer to boot from the USB stick if one is inserted, but the laptop always boots the normal way.

a suggestion for OP to look up the HP pavilion laptop model on the HP computer support site, then look for the Manuals section and click on the user guide link and read the section for entering bios setup

Actually, on the HP Pavilion laptop, the trick to get to the BIOS is to start the booting process and rapidly keep pressing the ESC key. It takes you right to the BIOS, where you can specify the boot sequence.

My problem was RESOLVED. To get to the BIOS on an HP Pavilion laptop, keep pressing ESC quickly when the boot process starts. That takes you right to the BIOS, where you can alter and save the boot sequence.

How are you booting through the USB? make sure you set your BIOS boot to UEFI if your machine is UEFI compatible otherwise use Legacy boot for older type machines. This should work otherwise use one RAM module at a time to see if the machine can boot, sometimes RAM faults can be the issue even if system checks are done. System checks are not low level meaning they do not go deep within the system architecture to look for faults.

If it were me, (knowing that it is quite old and in need of some servicing) I would strip it right down, clean air filters, reseat CPU, check for any swollen capacitors, check for signs of damage near the power jack and the battery charging circuits, etc, and then try gain. It will take you about 30 minutes and if having done that it still misbehaves, then you have ruled out many possibilities. Also, as an aside, I might be tempted to reflow the solder on the motherboard whilst it is stripped down.

The other thing it could be and I know it sounds like it is way out in left field is a magnetic clasp on a watch or bracelet. My previous laptop was an HP and when I wore one of my bracelets with a rare earth magnet my laptop would blue screen, or restart, or die or some other form of non specifically duplicate-able error. Took me days to figure out it was the bracelet because no other computer reacted to it the way the HP did.

Hello @spicehead-76vx2, thank you for your post and I regret the freezing issue you are experience. And thanks for the very helpful input from the other IT Pros. Additionally, you may want to try the steps in the following article: -10-freezes-startup-solved/ .

I have an older Pavilion from mid 2010. How do I disable the secure boot so that I can put in a different graphics card on the Pavilion H8-1010t (NOT H8-1010 because everything I find for the h8-1010 doesn't work on the h8-1010t)?

Any ideas how I could approaching debugging this issue? Or rather, what options do I have? I can get into the boot debug screen but not further than this. I can run the same USB Stick on VirtualBox. So maybe I can get the boot process to write something to the USB Stick so I can examine it later in VirtualBox? As this is a laptop serial connection is not possible. I assume the chances are slim to get this working?

Got further by now. When I restarted like 3 times I got into Haiku. Looks like the BIOS does not fully like the USB stick and failed properly reading from it the first times I tried. Seems that I needed to restart 3 times in a row with the USB stick in without letting Windows get in between. Strange behavior. The USB mouse and keyboard is not recognized yet but that might be because they are attached to the docking station. Need to experiment a bit more with this stuff.

I am trying to restore an HP Pavilion 15 Notebook(2014 vintage) which was running Windows 8.1 before a disk head crash, which required me to replace the internal HDD. When I try to re-install Windows from a set of 3 Windows 8 recovery media using an external DVD/CD drive (the internal one having died long ago) I do not see an option in Boot Manager to boot from a USB CD/DVD ROM even though I have changed the UEFI Boot order to have the USB CD/DVD ROM Drive option at the head of the list, and CD-ROM Boot is enabled in the Boot Options screen of BIOS (or rather InsydeH20 Setup Utility). The only options are OS Boot Manager and Boot from EFI File. There is a legacy boot order which has the USB CD/DVD ROM drive at the end of the list but this is greyed out. How can I get the machine to boot from an external USB CD/DVD ROM drive?

Well, actually, I'd abandon Windows 8.1, if at all feasible, and move to more modern Windows 10 or a Linux distro, such as Ubuntu (Linux tends to run better on older machines that may be slow on Windows 10).

I like round-number milestones. Especially if they allow one to showcase nice things. For example,sometime ago, I managed to revitalize my fairly ancient LG laptop by installing MX Linux on it. Thisrestored a great deal of speed and nimbleness to the system, allowing it to remain modern and relevantfor a bit longer.

Now that my HP machine has reached its double-digit age, I thought ofupgrading its Linux system. At the moment, the machine dual-boots Windows 7 (indeed, relax) and Kubuntu20.04. Things work reasonably well. Spec-wise, the 2010 laptop comes with a first-gen i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, 7,200rpm hard disk, and Nvidia graphics. Technically, not bad at all, even today. Well, Idecided to try some modern distro flavors, to see what gives.

As it happens, trying to boot from USB resulted in a black screen and naught else. But which distroyou ask? Aha. All of them! Anything that was created roughly from August last year onwards no longerboots on this machine. Older distributions still work perfectly fine. I am not sure why - it's actuallyimpossible to get any debug information, because the whole sequence stalls one second after selectingthe USB boot device, there are no virtual consoles, no output, nothing.

My guess is that this has to do with the Nvidia hardware on the machine. First, the card is now soold that it only qualifies for the rather neglected Nvidia legacy drivers - which are being deprecatedfaster than you can say dampfschiff. Second, most distributions rarely do any testing with this branch,and/or they only ship the newer versions of drivers, which explicitly conflict with the old cards. I'vealready seen this issues in the years past, but now, we seem to have taken a turn for the worse. Third,due to the proprietary nature of the drivers, most distributions do not ship with Nvidia binaries outof the box, and you get the open-source Nouveau driver instead. But its compatibility has also beenquite flaky - on this laptop - so that might be another element contributing to the sad ending of thisstory.

Trawling through the online forums, I've found a few other mentions of similar problems. Of course,almost every legacy system issue is rather unique, so I can't draw any concrete conclusions here. Butit does feel like Linux is leaving old stuff behind. 'Tis a paradox really. On one hand, Linux iswell-known for being able to run (and pride itself for being able to do so) on ancient, low-endhardware. On the other hand, providing and maintaining support for an infinite amount of ancientsystems is difficult.

And if you do recall my older content, I had a somewhat similar problem on my T42 laptop. Back when it had its tenth birthday,I booted it up after a long pause, and tried using Linux on it yet again. And I had problems findingLinux drivers for its ATI card - Windows drivers were easily and readily available. The problems aren'tidentical, but they are definitely indicative. Oh well. I may continue testing and playing with the oldHP Pavilion, but I might not be able to really show you how well it carries into modern age. Hopefully,you found something useful in this wee sad article.

I have an old dv6 pavilion machine (2010ish) with Fedora 32 Workstation. I am trying to put Fedora33 LXDE on it for a lighter OS, but there is no way to make the pc boot the OS on the usb flashdrive. I have tried:

I tried all USB ports, all drives I create boot on my other machines. And I did install Fedora 32 using the same USB back when I did it. I don't know what else to try and I am running out of tricks here. Thanks for any help you could give me!

press ESC and then F10 to get into BIOS, navigate to BOOT order setting, even if they are correct confirm them and press F10 to save and exit. Then it will BOOT from USB. Believe this is specific for this laptop model.

First, a few loose ends. I purchased this new laptop because it was what I wanted, and I had been watching for it for quite a while. I didn't want just any random laptop, or just whatever some OEM was willing to sell me without an operating system loaded. I wanted this particular one. I knew that Microsoft would get their cut of the money, because it was preloaded with Windows 8, and I knew that I would probably not actually use Windows, but that didn't matter to me. I was pleased that HP asked me to complete a 'Customer Satisfaction Survey', and in that survey I said that I thought they should offer to sell any system with no operating system installed. I understand that the logistics of distribution and support for offering multiple operating systems for all systems would be significant, but simply offering any computer with no operating system shouldn't be too difficult. I also understand that my suggestion will amount to somewhat less than urinating in the ocean, but it's the thought that counts...

So, now I have had this lovely new HP sub-notebook for a few days, and I have loaded and reloaded various Linux distributions on it a lot of times. One thing that impressed me about it was how fast it is, for this kind of system. It boots, runs, suspeds, wakes up and shuts down amazingly quickly. The hardware seems very solid too (did I mention that it doesn't have the accursed Synaptic ClickPad?), and although the Wi-Fi adapter is currently ahead of most Linux distributions, that won't last long. So I was starting to become pretty sure that this would turn out to be my new preferred notebook system. That gave me the idea of extracting the Samsung SSD from my Acer Aspire One 522 (AO 522), and putting it in this HP Pavilion to see how that goes.

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