Believe its a Seagate as the bios starts out with ST followed by numbers on
primary ide.
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Dave
"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> With an AMD Turion, it's doubtful that's the source of overheating. You
> didn't mention the HD vendor but I'd wager that drive is overheating. I've
> seen many notebook drives run at or near their upper limit of 131-135
> degrees-F. Because notebook drives are mounted in a bracket there is
> usually no way to vent or exhaust the heat. SpeedFan can show both the
> drive temp and the SMART data of the drive. One problem with almost
> all notebooks is the fan control is set at thresholds to avoid noise at
> the
> risk of overheating. Sometimes a notebook Chiller pad will help or at
> the least elevate the back of the notebook so some air flows underneath
> the computer.
>
> "Lil' Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:e%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> My daughter's significant other owns a 2006 Compaq laptop with an AMD 64
>> Turion. He has a lot of business files on it. Its running XP with SP2.
>> It has a problem that I suspect is hardware, but may be the OS reacting
>> somehow as well. It may be significant as well to say that it has Norton
>> Internet Security and AV loaded version 2006. No Norton updates were
>> ever done. May be significant as well to say that this laptop has always
>> been slow as molasses running local apps, and accessing the internet.
>> That's the least of their worries now. Presently, the laptop may turn
>> off entirely without warning anywhere from a few minutes use to many
>> hours of use. No pattern. Audibly, the fan turns on shortly after
>> entering the XP desktop loading routine if started from cold boot left
>> off for a few hours or more. I can't demonstrably tell when the laptop
>> is finished booting the desktop and startup files. The HDD access LED
>> seems intermittently lit even an hour later. The hiberfil.sys is 3GB and
>> swapfile is 1.6GB.
>>
>> They tried in desperation to copy their personal files to CD, but the
>> laptop always turns off in the middle of it. Even when copying a few
>> files at a time. She was unable to locate any recovery CDs for the
>> Compaq. She did find what appears to be externally as a generic OEM XP
>> installation CD. There is a product ID sticker on the bottom of the
>> laptop.
>>
>> Always true, after opening control panel, when double clicking the system
>> icon, the laptop turns off. So, have been unable to check XP's
>> assessment of hardware.
>>
>> Was able to load DriveImage version 7.0 on the laptop. Connected a USB
>> FAT32 external hard drive. I imaged the C: partition successfully. It
>> took 5.5 hours (laptop stopped in the middle of verification of image).
>> I see the normal directories at the root, the windows folder has nothing
>> in it per the image file, and the image passed verification per my PC.
>> So, I guess windows is in another partition. So, I have to go back and
>> image that as well. I did burn all their personal files from the image,
>> along with the folder structure to DVD (680MB). TrendMicro AV could find
>> no virus or spyware on it.
>>
>> Should they attempt to locate the original recovery CDs from Compaq?
>> Or, limp along on the generic OEM installation from scratch?
>> Is there a place to get drivers for this laptop?
>> How do I determine if heat is the root problem on this laptop?
>> --
>> Dave
>>
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