HopelessSam

Hi, my POS PhoenixBios does not seem to support this, HP really made BIOS almost completely useless except change boot order.... Any other thoughts

Hey guys, In a bind now. I am a college student trying to fix my broken hp dv6700 for 2 months now... I have tried everything, lurked this forum a lot, trying to get the USB installation, no work because of good old Hal.dll error. The CD ROM drive is unbootable, nothing loads from the installation cd, and i know its the cd rom drives fault since the cd boots fine in other computers... I tried almost everything, even xcopy and trying to run via DOS to install, no go... since I realized my SATA drivers werent installed... I bought an external floppy, tried booting via 98 start up and winnt.exe, still no go since windows couldnt find my hard drive... i tried fdisking a new fat 32 volume, it says no physical disks presents. However, I know it is working fine, cause BartPE detects it and shows its running normally... So now, I have to install the SATA drivers... but cant since when i press f6 on floppy boot it just keeps going, and ignores the f6 command, aka it asks for floppy #2 ! And if i continue, at the end of floppy 6 i just get a blue screen error associated with sata driver missing. Does anyone know how to fix this problem! Hell I will throw a few bones their way, this has caused a wreck!! I just want to install xp... I was thinking maybe somehow installing the SATA driver BEFORE the XP installation...any help there or how do I fix the f6 problem... i tried the textsetup.oem fix... but that is for methods besides the floppy... i can get the usb down and the scsi pops up, BUT still the hal.dll error... Thanks a lot in advance!