I got an HP Pavilion G6-2245SQ and I've installed Windows 7 32bit. I spend a day to find drivers [HP only offers drivers for Windows 8 64bit] .. and after I installed them, after restart... surprise. Dont boot.

Same .. shows "Press ESC key..." and then restarts .. over and over. I can access Bios, Boot menu and all option menus.. but none of them cant repair.

I have installed Windows 8 .. and boots perfectly. I start Windows 8 ... and then select Windows 7.. then restart and start Windows 7.

My daughter has a HP 625 notebook [product code WS786EA

AKS, windows 7] that is no longer starting. I have tried a lot but have now run out of ideas on how to fix it [or see what is the error]

When I do a power on, it is stuck for a long time at the HP logo screen, saying "Press the ESC key for Startup Menu". If i press esc [or any other F-key] nothing happens for a long time. After a while [like 10 minutes] one menu option is written [I think it is "Press F1 for system information"]. Then after a while more [like 5 more mintues] the startup menu finally appears. Then it responds quickly [inside the menu system] and i can do some tests.

I have taken out the HDD, but the slow boot process is still there, I need to wait 10-20 minutes to go into to startup menu.

Once there, I was able to do a memory test, but there were no errors found.

Once there I have also managed to update BIOS [through a bootable USB key] without the HDD being installed. The same behaviour is still there after upgrade [without HDD].

I have tried to look at the blinking of the "Caps lock" LED. It does not blink until after a long time. I didn't see exactly when it started [I couldn't sit there for 10 minutes waiting for a key to maybe blink], but when I started counting it blinked at least 10 times, so it does not match any of the blink codes.

[I docked the HDD into a USB dock, and run som disk checks. Some errors were corrected, but it seemed to be OK also before that. After all of the actions above, I reinstalled the HDD in the notebook, put in a Windows 7 recovery DVD, and restarted. It didn't care. It still "hangs" att boot logo].

Obviously there is some hardware error, but I wonder which part it might be that is not working, and how I find out?