Won't boot past the BIOS

[jasigler]

I was dual-booting vista and Fedora on my laptop, and decided to get rid of windows. I went ahead and re-installed fedora, erasing the existing partitions so that I could run fedora exclusively. However, when it rebooted my system, it won't go any farther than my BIOS splashscreen. Even if I attempt to boot from the dvd drive, all I see is black. The hard drive is not being accessed, and it won't read the dvd for more than a few seconds. Everything was fine before I erased the NTFS partition, so I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or not. Fedora ran beautifully while I still had windows, but I got too excited and got rid of the windows disc.......What do I do??

It's a cyberpower laptop (my first mistake)
AMD x64
NVidia GeForce go 7600

[sidebrnz]

Erasing your Windows partition won't magically break your computer. If you could boot from the install media, I'd say that grub wasn't installed correctly, but it won't. If it won't even boot from a DVD and could before, it's probably a hardware problem. If your laptop is still under warranty, take advantage of it; if not, check with the manufacturer for assistance.

[JohnVV]

give this a try do you have a copy of SystemRescueCd burned to disk
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
and see if the live cd will boot , if not then it may be hardware also check warranty fine print .removing the factory installed OS might / mostlikely will null and void the HARDWARE warranty.
-- this is the same as putting a new radio in your car and that kills the warranty on the transmission --
it makes no sense but it IS what it is
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some laptops have a manufacture custom bios installed check there site and find out .
there are other ways like mounting the laptop to a desk top sys and installing that way ,but i have not tried that and am not qualified in that area