serpentracer
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hey guys I was hoping someone may have experienced this before and hopfully there might be a fix for this.
I have a HP touchsmart computer with a samsung hard drive. the hard drives seems to stop working after a little bit of use.
the light for the HD starts to dimly flicker and the computer freezes up. you can't click on anything. and it stays like that until you forcefully power it down by holding the power button.
the weird part is, the bios has the SMART detection stuff. but it's not reporting any trouble until you run the quick tests. then it fails 7% of the way into the test. but it cuts off the words so I can't see the full description of the failure.
HP also has diagnostic tools that runs in windows but the drive stops working before the tests get that far.
I've also come across a compaq laptop doing the same thing.
so what do you guys think? is it fixable? the warranty on the HP is over too. I don't mind putting a new HD in it, I don't want to have to pay for a new windows disk.
I have a HP touchsmart computer with a samsung hard drive. the hard drives seems to stop working after a little bit of use.
the light for the HD starts to dimly flicker and the computer freezes up. you can't click on anything. and it stays like that until you forcefully power it down by holding the power button.
the weird part is, the bios has the SMART detection stuff. but it's not reporting any trouble until you run the quick tests. then it fails 7% of the way into the test. but it cuts off the words so I can't see the full description of the failure.
HP also has diagnostic tools that runs in windows but the drive stops working before the tests get that far.
I've also come across a compaq laptop doing the same thing.
so what do you guys think? is it fixable? the warranty on the HP is over too. I don't mind putting a new HD in it, I don't want to have to pay for a new windows disk.