My guess is either HDD or RAM. Is there a Frys near you? They are selling a refurbished. Corsair Nova2 SSD 60GB for 35-ish dollars. Would smoke whatever HDD was in there ... just a thought.
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My guess is either HDD or RAM. Is there a Frys near you? They are selling a refurbished. Corsair Nova2 SSD 60GB for 35-ish dollars. Would smoke whatever HDD was in there ... just a thought.
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++1 Me, myself and I would lean towards it being bad RAM.Originally Posted by DrPop
My guess is either HDD or RAM. Is there a Frys near you? They are selling a refurbished. Corsair Nova2 SSD 60GB for 35-ish dollars. Would smoke whatever HDD was in there ... just a thought.
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One other possible cause could be the CPU overheating. If you run the lappy again and it BSODs then put your hand on the bottom of the case. If it feels really warm, like close to hot, then its the CPU overheating.
Earlier this year I got fed up with my Sony VIAO running at 86+ on most BOINC projects so I opened it up. When I removed the CPU cooler I found the the thermal paste had dried up completely. The residue was rock hard. Anyhoot, after I got it all fixed it now runs 15~18C cooler.
When I ran a HP diagnostic on the memory it tested fine. Does you still think it could be the ram? How can I test the temperature if the silly thing is locked into a check it can't seem to complete before dying?
Found a 64gb ssd for $30 at Newegg after rebate of course.My guess is either HDD or RAM. Is there a Frys near you? They are selling a refurbished. Corsair Nova2 SSD 60GB for 35-ish dollars. Would smoke whatever HDD was in there ... just a thought.
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In the situation you are having, run several passes of a memory test, and let it cook. If your C.P.U. gets too hot, it will stop. But if it runs fine for a while it is probably the drive.
But if it runs fine in safe mode and not under the 'standard' start-up, it sounds more like a hard drive issue.
Use a live CD Linux that has a memory test on the boot menu to keep from trying to run the memory test on the hard drive.
I think Ubuntu has a memory test.
BOINC Sees it - BOINC DOES it!
Good advice there. Ubuntu does have the mem test built in to their liveCD. You could download the distro, and burn the CD, boot the lappy off it and enter the mem test. As he said, try to leave it running awhile. If you come back and it's still running, then I think your RAM is good and I'd place my $30 bet on the SSD and a fresh OS install. That will probably have it crunching for a long time to come yet...
+1 on the Ubuntu but may I suggest using a USB thumb drive instead. A 2GB or better will do just fine. The utility to get Ubuntu onto the thumb drive is called YUMI and can be had (Here)Good advice there. Ubuntu does have the mem test built in to their liveCD. You could download the distro, and burn the CD, boot the lappy off it and enter the mem test. As he said, try to leave it running awhile. If you come back and it's still running, then I think your RAM is good and I'd place my $30 bet on the SSD and a fresh OS install. That will probably have it crunching for a long time to come yet...
Well I tried to install windows on the SSD and it blue screens me at the same spot every time. I am stumped and wondering if I just need to float test the little bastard.
If it is overheating the cpu how do I fix that?
What is the error code of the BSOD? Did you run the code through Yahoo or Goggle?
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