I got this laptop for free, it had a bad charger port. I fixed it, and it posts and everything. This laptop hasen't been running in a while, and when it started up, it froze up at the post screen. I hit the power button, and restarted it. This time it got through the post, but really slowly. It then started to start xp, but took about 15 minutes, i noticed it would barely read the hard drive.
So i restarted it, and this time it got past the post screen in about a second, and started to start xp. But it did nothing, I left it at the windows start up screen for about 20 minutes, still nothing. I noticed it again would not read the hard drive. Now i assumed the hard drive is bad. I tried booting off my Bart PE cd, but it wouldn't boot from cd, no matter what boot order i put it in.
Eventually I just removed the hard drive and then it booted from the cd. Then i put the hard drive back in and it would suddenly boot from the cd. So i used bart pe to check the hard drive, nothing. I took the cd out and rebooted it. Now it booted xp really quick and would actually read the hard drive. Problem is it still does this every once in a while. Its almost like the bios has some bug in it, or maybe the hard drive is starting to go bad?
Anyways, its a nice laptop to get for free. 2.8ghz p4 HT, 512mb ddr-333, Nvidia goforce 5600, 17" widescreen, harmon/kardon speakers, and built in wireless. When it works, its fast, luckily this laptop does no speedstepping as it uses the standard desktop 478 p4.
So i restarted it, and this time it got past the post screen in about a second, and started to start xp. But it did nothing, I left it at the windows start up screen for about 20 minutes, still nothing. I noticed it again would not read the hard drive. Now i assumed the hard drive is bad. I tried booting off my Bart PE cd, but it wouldn't boot from cd, no matter what boot order i put it in.
Eventually I just removed the hard drive and then it booted from the cd. Then i put the hard drive back in and it would suddenly boot from the cd. So i used bart pe to check the hard drive, nothing. I took the cd out and rebooted it. Now it booted xp really quick and would actually read the hard drive. Problem is it still does this every once in a while. Its almost like the bios has some bug in it, or maybe the hard drive is starting to go bad?
Anyways, its a nice laptop to get for free. 2.8ghz p4 HT, 512mb ddr-333, Nvidia goforce 5600, 17" widescreen, harmon/kardon speakers, and built in wireless. When it works, its fast, luckily this laptop does no speedstepping as it uses the standard desktop 478 p4.
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