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Hello. I purchase my computer in February 2007, for a good deal from a friend. The parts were bought separately and he had owned it about 4 months before selling as he needed a laptop for school. In hindsight it might not have been a good choice to buy without warranty, but thats said and done.
The computer did not have a genuine windows on it so i could not get windows updates. During July/August 2007 I began to have problems. The computer would restart itself at random points. This happened occasionally until November when it restarted, and completely dumped the OS and all my files, and would not get past a screen saying "verifying DMI data pool". We eventually had a friend of the family come over who was pretty computer savy and was able to reinstall windows. The computer was fine for a month before the exact thing happened. About 3 weeks ago I took it into a shop and they diagnosed the problem was the hard drive which was fried. So I purchased a new HD and a genuine copy of Windows. The last few weeks have been great, but just a few days ago the problem reappeared. My computer now restarts itself more frequently, maybe twice a day. I've googled it and come up with many possibilities. I was afraid of overheating so I took the side panel off and placed an 8" diameter fan by my feet pointed as the copmuter to keep it cool since this morning, but it has restarted twice already today. It can't be the HD or OS since they are 2 weeks old. Could someone please give me some insight? This problem has been going on so long and its such a pain, everytime I think I've gotten rid of it, it comes right back and gets me.
Please, any input is appreciated,
Thanks
Hello. I purchase my computer in February 2007, for a good deal from a friend. The parts were bought separately and he had owned it about 4 months before selling as he needed a laptop for school. In hindsight it might not have been a good choice to buy without warranty, but thats said and done.
The computer did not have a genuine windows on it so i could not get windows updates. During July/August 2007 I began to have problems. The computer would restart itself at random points. This happened occasionally until November when it restarted, and completely dumped the OS and all my files, and would not get past a screen saying "verifying DMI data pool". We eventually had a friend of the family come over who was pretty computer savy and was able to reinstall windows. The computer was fine for a month before the exact thing happened. About 3 weeks ago I took it into a shop and they diagnosed the problem was the hard drive which was fried. So I purchased a new HD and a genuine copy of Windows. The last few weeks have been great, but just a few days ago the problem reappeared. My computer now restarts itself more frequently, maybe twice a day. I've googled it and come up with many possibilities. I was afraid of overheating so I took the side panel off and placed an 8" diameter fan by my feet pointed as the copmuter to keep it cool since this morning, but it has restarted twice already today. It can't be the HD or OS since they are 2 weeks old. Could someone please give me some insight? This problem has been going on so long and its such a pain, everytime I think I've gotten rid of it, it comes right back and gets me.
Please, any input is appreciated,
Thanks