[AT] OT - laptop hard drive

[Ken Knierim]

Another thing I've seen recently... the heatsink grease will sometimes dry
out and you need to clean it out and put fresh on it. So the temp program
and cleaning everything are good ideas but keep an eye out for odd stuff.

My software guy roasted one of the processor cores in his laptop because of
the grease (running some long compile times for an embedded linux ARM
core). We regreased it and things ran cooler but it had already been
damaged. new ebay CPU finally fixed it..

Ken in AZ



On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Thomas O Mehrkam <tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Your Dell should have a diagnostic partition.
>
> Boot from that and run the diagnostics.  It will test the hard drive
> memory processor etc.
>
> On 11/10/2015 4:09 PM, Mike wrote:
> > Ran Crystaldiskinfo and Seatools, and everything checked out OK. Looks
> > like it's time for a wipe and reinstall, not something I look forward
> > to. I know Dave, buy a Mac.......
> >
> > Mike M
> >
> >
> > On 11/10/2015 11:44 AM, Len Rugen wrote:
> >>    Laptops hard drives are usually even easier than desktops.  Windows
> is like dead animals, it decomposes, after a few years, it's hopeless,
> about all you can do is format the hard drive and reinstall.
> >>
> >> One test, download a "Live CD" of some Linux OS (I'd suggest Zorin).
> You can boot and run that without changing anything on your hard drive.  If
> is is now fast and stays up, you're probably right about it being OS/disk
> issues.  If it still crashes, it could be ram, cpu or motherboard.
> >>
> >> If the system has a good enough CPU and enough memory, I"d suggest
> getting a solid state disk (SSD).  No moving parts, they are much faster.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>        On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:35 AM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>    Hi all, I have a Dell laptop that is about 8 years old running
> windows
> >> 7. I have a hunch that the hard drive may be on it's way out, it takes
> >> forever to boot, it freezes for no reason, and now I'm getting random
> >> blue screens that pop up out of no where. I've run every malware and
> >> antivirus I have and everything is clean. I've installed hard drives in
> >> desktops before, but never a laptop. How hard is it, and what type
> >> should I be looking for? Any advantage going with 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm.
> >> Right now the computer has a 500GB SATA Samsung hard drive; apparently
> >> Samsung was bought out by Seagate.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike M
> >>
> >>
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