Although, you could just find a USB drive, pull your hard drive out, and boot from a CD and temporarily load a windows OS on the USB drive to do this process. (there are a few ways of running them, but the easiest are the one run from inside windows… if available and needed, which may require an OS reload.) Final Option: If it hasn’t got data you want, blow it away and reload, (format the drive in the process). this will clear you cmos also, which could have a bad setting – reset to defaults, just in case, and reboot.) and you may want to go to HP and see if they have a flash bios update. Another issue could be a BIOS problem, (or CMOS battery issue – you could disconnect the battery and see if the issue changes.

Another check is to bring it up and F10 it into CMOS and see if it sits at that for a while (longer than the 5 seconds.). If it stays up, the hard drive or OS may be the issue. You may want to pull the hard drive out before this test to narrow down the issue. First, If you’ve got a Windows or Linux CD, boot the system from that, and see if the pc stays up and running for longer. Read these notes FULLY before starting anything… The resolution could be simple, and you don’t want to blow anything away or do anything you don’t need to… Here’s my opinion on checking out your issue Ryan….

I have these same model of laptop (NC6320) The problem is when i turn on its keep restart every 5 secs… They said motherboard is the problem. Simply unplug the old battery from the motherboard and plug in a new one. If your computer sets default date and time after each reboot, the CMOS battery is bad and has to be replaced. The CMOS (RTC) battery – a yellow battery on the right side from the processor heatsink. You can remove the cooling fan and clean the heat sink. This model can handle up to 2GB RAM total, so you can install up to 1GB RAM module into each slot. Now you can access and replace the internal memory module. Lift up the keyboard and place it upside down on the palm rest. Turn the notebook over and release four latches securing the keyboard.

Under the memory cover you’ll find two screws securing the keyboard. Under the battery you’ll find two screws (red circles) securing the switch board cover. Replacing the memory module installed in the internal slot.

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