Hi,
Couple of months ago, my pc was freezing at start up, just before or after loading BIOS. This happened from time to time until rebooting would not help anymore. I tried F10, checked HP tools, HDD, memory and reloading a previous verion of Windows update but none helped. The only way to sort it was to buy a new hard drive and re-install Windows 7 from scratch. The Hard drive would pass the test but it was impossible to read information from it using a startup DVD.
This was a couple of months from now and my DV7 is still running fine but recently the issue came back. Once in say 5 times approx. it is freezing again.
I ran a check at startup but PC seeems to be fine. Would you have records of similar problems with this model.
The fan is running high, looks like PC might be too warm...?