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Custom build boots to solid blue screen
Hi. I recently finished building a custom laptop (not really “custom” it’s a pavilion 15-bc that I bought all the parts for and assembled). When I power on the screen says “manufacturing programming in unlock mode.” It then proceeds to the “product information not valid” screen. This sequence happens whether there is a drive connected or not. If I try to do a normal boot to my cloned drive, the spinning dotted circle appears and then freezes. I assume this is because of the hardware change, and I anticipated such problems. I am unable to access the recovery environment though. So I backed up my media, wiped the drive, and bought an install CD. When I boot to the CD the HP logo appears and then the screen turns solid blue (not bsod, just solid blue). After a minute or so, the computer just powers off. I tried installing with the CD via another computer and it worked perfectly, so the CD is fine. I then tried a bootable USB and the exact same thing happened. Hardware is an i7-6700HQ, 8GB DDR4 single channel, GTX960m 5GB GDDR5, 1TB MX500. I’m completely at a loss and have no idea why I can’t run a windows install. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.