balus wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2010 at 9:49pm:

samurai wrote on Dec 2nd, 2010 at 8:21pm: I'm telling you its not going to work you will get the same problems if your CPU and the chip set are damaged using another OS will not work One of the stop messages that was posted earlier relates to potential driver or hard drive issues, not the fan. All I am trying to do here with the linux CD is eliminate Windows and it's various drivers as the cause. It may well still fail, but at least then we will know that it is in fact a hardware issue. Then fun begins, isolating the hardware  :)

Ok, now we're having fun :)

Are you able to remove the hard drive? Can you also let me know the full model name, I know it is an HP Pavillion dv5 but there should be a couple of other numbers or letters after that. I'll see if I can locate a service manual for it.

If you can remove the drive, try booting the from the CD again.