Laptop does not boot.

Laptop will not load Vista OS. BIOS works ok and all internal diags passed ( harddrive and memory ). The screen stays black with the cursor blinking. I tried booting off on the dvd drive with a Vista and Windows 2008 server boot disk but got a CDBOOT Error Code:0. Could not find that error anywhere on the web. I removed the harddrives and screen showed "NO bootable disk" as I would have expected. SATA Harddrive issue? Could that also cause the DVD drive to malfunction?
thanks,
John

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I grasp that your notebook will not boot or startup but just presents a blank or black screen. You were able to access the bios and test the hard drive and memory and both passed. You tried booting to a Vista disk but were unsuccessful.
Here is a link to Computer Does not Start (Windows 7, Vista, XP)
Here are two more links that may also help.
HP Notebook PCs - Recover Windows Vista Operating System Using HP Recovery
HP Notebook PCs - Configuring the Boot Order in the System BIOS
Best of Luck!
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