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HP 6515b laptop won't boot past Ghost opening screen

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 3 comments
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   Just got the newest version of HP laptop, 6515b.  PXE boots fine to the network and downloads the Ghost software but freezes up on the opening Ghost blue screen.  Tried booting from floppy and cd with the same results.
Any one else have this problem?
Thanks.

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2007
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Get some thumb drives and create bootable thumb drive the same way that you would a floppy but select "disk" rather than floppy.  Network Boot package, use all the default sets except when you get to the part where you select the type of disk, select the Format Disk and make sure the disk is found or Browse until you see it.  Use the Broadcom driver  for NetExtreme Family 6.46 or 6.34, depending on which on works.  I have several times of HP machines, and not many use the same driver.  The 6.46 and the 6.34 are the most common ones that I have found.  The thumb drives works MUCH faster than floppies but there is 2 machine models that I still have to use floppies with external floppy drives. 
 
Good luck.  Broadcom drivers with Ghost has been a nightmare, but when it works, it works great. 
 
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Don't think you understood the problem, but thanks for the quick response.

The computer boots fine to the point of running the Ghost executable. The universal driver as well as the bootable CD I've made get past the network portion of the process and recognize the NIC.  The Ghost executable just freezes at the blue screen where the imaging selections should pop up on the menu.

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2007
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Mike Gardner

Found fix.

Created a Boot CD which starts the Ghost client with the "-NOIDE" switch and all is well..

I had the same experience with the HP 6325 but it would still initially boot from the old CD with no switch but the image took 5 to 8 hours to create. After re-starting Ghost from the DOS prompt with the -NOIDE switch the image took 6 minutes.


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