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Notebook freezes
Nomad:
Thank you Boggin and Shane for your replies
Till now I used Boggin's hints: Windows memory test concluded OK.
HD Sentinel (4.60 PRO, Trial version) stated in overview:Performance: 100% Excellent; Health: 100% Excellent "The hard disk status is PERFECT. Problematic or weak sectors were not found and there are no spin up or data transfer errors. No actions needed."
This version of HD Sentinel does not the Extended Self-test, I ran just the Short Self-test which took 2 minutes and was Successfully Completed, although I noticed it slowed down on some parts of the disk; I didn't run other tests because they were not guaranted to be not destructive.
As soon as I can I'll do a chkdsk c: /r.
Nomad
jraju:
Hi,
You just go to Bios and there will be self test to perform. One is simple boot and another configurations test. You select it and run. It will test the hard ware configuation and if it passes 100%, then the close the system and reboot. Your problem would be fixed. Laptop has self test features by the manufacturers and it restores the system to stability.
If self test is not succeeded, then you have to go to the manufac web site to recovery processes.
if you press delete or press f2, you get bios settings. The freezing is due to corrupt mbr. If that is the case, you have to get the command prompt from cd dvd installation disc and there you have to select command prompt and execute the command fixmbr to fix mbr and your problem would be solved
Boggin:
Have you managed to run the chkdsk /r and has it brought any improvement, but as the freezes are intermittent you may have to run it for a while.
You can view the chkdsk report in Event Viewer.
To do this go Start - type eventvwr and press enter.
When it has read the logs, expand Windows Logs - click on Application - Find then type chkdsk or wininit into the Find box and press enter.
Cancel the Find box and view the report in the scrollable window - it will be any KBs in bad sectors that you are looking for but as the freezes are so far apart, I don't think it will be bad sectors and because of that I would also discount overheating unless you are placing more demand on the machine at these time periods.
You may be able to view the temps in the BIOS but HWMonitor will also give you this info if the BIOS doesn't have them. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/hwmonitor.html
Nomad:
Hi again
Ran chkdsk C: /r. It didn't come to an end, stopped saying "50 percentage concluded (23799245 from 54036967 free clusters processed)".
I had to press power button to restart. What's the meaning of this?
Jraju, I don't get what test you are telling me about; going to BIOS I found tests for HDs and Memory, didn't find boot or configuration test, what hardware configuration test do you mean?
This freezing issue does not happen at booting.
And there is not any cd/dvd instalation disc, the notebook has a recovery partition.
More hints, please?
Boggin:
That doesn't sound very healthy.
Can you boot up into the Advanced Boot options - usually by tapping F8 as you switch on - select Repair your Computer (I assume Vista also has this option) - navigate to the Recovery Environment and select Command Prompt.
At the prompt enter bcdedit |find "osdevice"
Using whichever partition letter it gives, enter (assuming c) chkdsk c:
This is a read only mode and hopefully it will show if there is any file corruption, but more importantly if there are any bad sectors.
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