HP Desktop will not go past the bios

vallumlj

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My mum has just called and said her hp desktop will not go past the bios screen. She does not get any warning beeps but the bios does saying something like smart something failed. Sorry I cant be more helpful I will be looking at it in the morning.

She does have a recovery disk we made when she first got the pc but it will not boot from it.

Any ideas what the problem could be it was working fine yesterday.

I was going to try and use a xp disk to see if it boot from it and try and repair windows this way.

Any help would be great.

Thanks