Black screen after system restore, notebook stops working.

my notebook stops working after i do a system restore, black screen,lights are on, number and caps lock is contineously blinking,fan is running, hard drive not running.done hard reset but still the same after switching on.what seems to be the problem.my model is hp pavilion dv4-1428dx product number NV166UA#ABA.

Frerk wrote:
Now what I did is: The restore took too long. It said 3 hours and it went up continuously.
Yup, probably something corrupted in the backups of OSX.
I reinstalled OS X and I am now restoring my personal data from backup within the setup assistant.
However I don't know if iChat works again.
If it was a problem with OSX or the iChat app, you've got a new version of each, so probably.
Keep us posted.

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thanks for the reply.
Trilby wrote:If nomodeset worked with the installation medium, why haven't you tried that for the same problem on your installed system?
The kernel parameter 'nomodeset' results in a working display but without X support, due to the fact that with 'nomodeset' there is no KMS support and therefore no X. But nevertheless I tried it and as expected X did not start.
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