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My laptop computer was slowly dieing and I found out why

sam_sam_samsam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286
edited 2010-12-29 22:33 in General Discussion
It start at the being of this year when I do Basic Stamp programing I would get a memory error and it would close the editor and I would lose what I was working on and you never knew when this would happen to you

So I restored the computer back to the way it was when I bought this would help but it would get back to doing the same thing

The other thing that would happen is that while you are surfing the Internet it would some time just take a vacation for a while loading a page

The other problem that was happening

That when you hibernate the computer it would take longer and longer to come out of it

So finally I had enough of this and took off the cover for the hard drive to see who made it and when to their site and down load their trouble shooting disk in DOS and ran it and it Failed Big time bad sectors errors

The hole problem was that the hard drive was very...........very slowly die............................ing :sick:...:sick:...:sick:...:sick: and I did not know it

I just bought a new hard drive for Christmas and what a difference this has made with this computer

I was doing Basic Stamp programing last night and surfing the Internet what a difference this has made :smile::smile::smile::smile:

Surfing the Internet F..A...S...T again

Comments

  • Spiral_72Spiral_72 Posts: 791
    edited 2010-12-28 09:30
    You sir, are a lucky man!!!
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2010-12-28 11:06
    Indeed, usually hard drives just make a thunka thunka noise and then they are history.
  • sam_sam_samsam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286
    edited 2010-12-28 15:03
    That was funny thing the hard drive never made any funny noise at all just hard light would ON alot lately was the only that gave me hint that some might be wrong with it
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,260
    edited 2010-12-28 15:41
    My Compaq desktop occasionally won't boot up and has all the earmarks of a crashed drive. But then I wiggle the HD's SATA cables at the motherboard connector and all is well for 3 months. I replaced the cables and the problem remains. Cheap connectors on the MB, I suppose.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2010-12-29 08:33
    You can set up an early warning of hard drive failure in BIOS on many newer computers - why wouldn't you? My only hard drive failure in the past 10 years was found in this manner and it was quite painless to replace the drive before sudden death took over.
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-12-29 11:04
    Fragmentation typically makes the drive slower and slower. I notice this on drives that have only 10GB or less remaining when running Windows XP.
  • sam_sam_samsam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286
    edited 2010-12-29 19:16
    I had defrag it often but it did not seem to make it any better

    So finally I had enough of this and took off the cover for the hard drive to see who made it and you read the rest.........>>>>
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2010-12-29 22:33
    If I had a nickel for every minute of defragmentation, I'd be rich. Linux doesn't require it and seems to run faster and search better.
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