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It turns out that it was the installation media. I used one of my XP Pro disks and it now works fine. Thanks for all your input.

When you put the touchsmart into tablet mode it covers the keyboard. I was hoping that I would be able to operate Windows 8 using touch only.

Ok so I've installed Windows 8 32bit on my laptop. Installs without a hitch. I had to manually install my touch screen drivers (N-TRIG) to calibrate the touch screen so that it was usable. I also needed the quick launch drivers so it would automatically flip the display when I went from...

The only removable hardware is a WLAN card and the hdd. Its running on 2gb of onboard RAM. I'll remove the WLAN just to be sure.

Just changed the CMOS battery and checked all the drivers were up to date - no change. I guess that just leaves the installation media. Have I missed anything?

DrBob - it was originally downgraded for ease of administration. We wanted all of our machines on the same platform. Now we have a mix of win7 and xp. BadBigBen - I had already reset the BIOS to factory default with no change. I will check both the chipset and video drivers are up to date when...

It's on mains power with the battery in. I will test different configurations when I'm back at work. It was working fine prior to the fresh OS install. Shutdown restart etc. I may have misunderstood the meaning of cold and warm booting I was under the impression that: Cold boot = Power on -...

After another Clean install I am getting the same results. I also tried to restart out of safe mode, same again. I just don't understand why it won't warm boot. If it was a hardware error, it wouldn't get past the POST after a cold boot.

Sorry I forgot to mention in the original post that it was clean install so there is very little that could go wrong. I am currently re reinstalling. I'll post back in the morning after retesting. Thanks for the advice.

I have a HP EliteBook 2530p, no service packs or updates. The problem is as follows, if I turn on the laptop it will load up and log into windows without incident. However, if I attempt to restart windows it will restart the OS as expected and then hang on the XP loading screen. Any ideas...