Yes to all of the above sort of.
I have wondered about the hard drive as well as the RAM.
Quite willing to change out any and all if it solves the problem.
Reluctant to throw money at it without evidence that it will fix the issues.
How would you suggest I check hard drive or RAM?
Are there utilites you would trust to do so? I assume something that
could be fed in from the CD/DVD drive or a flash drive in a USB port?
Also wonder about the video as at one point, I had some sort of message
about the inability of the video to display whatever. Is that going to
be something removable on a laptop or is it going to be part of the MB
in which case it becomes bad news?
I also note that I tried to feed it an ubuntu disk and it would not
install it - but also note that I have no understanding of ubuntu so it
might be my fault.
Randy
On 30/12/2010 3:08 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
It could be that the hard drive on the laptop is failing.
Father in law had an HP desktop with similar symptoms, initially was just slow
performance which got steadily worse until it would not boot. Restore, reinstall, etc.
was not successful. Finally thought to run a diagnostic on the drive and it reported all
kinds of errors. Oddly, Windows itself reported the drive as "healthy."
Replaced the drive, reinstalled Vista, and all was well.
Allan
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:04 -0800, "Curt Raymond"<curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Unfortunately on some (most?) newer machines XP is not an option. My dad
had wanted to put XP on theirs until I googled it, everybody who has
tried reports lousy results. Instead I bought them 2GB of RAM (up from
512MB) and they're happy.
Randy,
Does your machine have a restore partition? Lots of HPs do, look for it
during boot up something like "F12 for restore". That'll reinstall Vista
for you the quick way.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:09:06 -0600
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I agree with everything Dan said except that I would load the XP and
run that. If you don't have an XPSP4 disk, it takes a long time to
download and install all the updates. But then you don't have the
Wista crapola. I'd not spend any money on winders 7 until/unless you
know the machine works, and then only if you really want it for some
reason.
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