My HP Pavilion a405n (2004( crashed. First, the power button (on/off button) began sticking, then turning itself off. Had to pull button out to normal place. Not sure if this is relevant. I turned on pc as usual, and the intel screen came on, made a few noises and a black screen came up "a disk read error occurred". Had hard drive checked to extract data with no luck. I was encouraged by seeing today's date come up.
Today, I got to another screen by pressing F1 - a screen came up as follows:
Phoenix-AwardBios Setup Utility
System Date Fri. Mar 7-2014 item help
showed up/down/right/left arrows : move TS
Enter: Select
+/-?PU/PD: value
Escape: exit
F1: General help
F5:optimized defaults
F10: saved
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F1: Help F5: Reload default F10: save and exit Esc: exit without saving
None of the options listed responded to the keyboard.
Is there any help for this problem?