No boot disk detected or boot disk failed

I'm asking this for my father. He does not have the internet right now. Nothing to do with this issue though.
He has a Pavillion 23, model # 23-1270. A week ago he went to turn on his computer and got an error message saying, " No boot disk detected or boot disk failed. My sister called HP and one of the techs said it was the hard drive and it needed to be replaced. So it was replaced. Went to put Windows 8 back on from the disk, and it still pops up with "No boot disk detected or boot disk failed". My sister ran diagnostics on it and it comes back saying that the hard drive passed. But nothing about the dvd/cd player. Would it not pick that up? It is part of the computer. My question is: Now that the hard drive has passed, and its not reading the Windows 8 disk, is it a dvd/cd problem, or is it some thing totally different? My sister and my dad have money issues right now and can't afford to use an HP tech. So I'm hoping that someone knows what could be wrong and what I may be able to try.
Thank you so very much,
Andrea K.

Hello liv2lrn,
This is bad news especially around Christmas time. Your fathers computer is not worth fixing. Motherboard is corrupted, because these steps given faild. It is cheeper to buy another computer then it is replacing a motherboard. That's even if HP has one in stock. What I would do is shop on E-Bay you can find real good deals there for another good used one. I puchased a high value Sony VGC-LLT25E 24" screen computer for $300.00 Amazon at the time had two listed for $1999.00 and the other one at $1800.00 both were sold with in two weeks. I got lucky . That computer has out lasted three HP computers witch are newer. It is in mint condition runs a whole lot better then my HP's computers do. Shop wisely. You can save lots of money like I did.
Good Luck I am sure you can find a real good deal like I did.
frrw.

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