laptop problems

beachBOYken · 9 Jan 2010 at 12:29

hi

im having big problems with my laptop, it keeps locking up when turning on and then randomly locking at other stages , i basically can not use it?

im trying to re-install windows xp as i did have it on vista but when i can get to the xp install stage it again just locks up while installing.

could this be some sort of hardware problem?

im really lost :confused:

cheers

chipps101 · 9 Jan 2010 at 12:37

hi, it sounds like the hard drive to me but it could be a few other things also.
you could try one of the versions of linux that runs from the cd and that may tell you if its just the hard drive or something else.

beachBOYken · 9 Jan 2010 at 12:40

ive just turned it on and so far its installing xp ok , but yesterday it was locking up every 2 minutes?

could it be heating problem

chipps101 · 9 Jan 2010 at 12:43

if its a heating problem as soon as you do anything cpu intensive you'll know.

beachBOYken · 9 Jan 2010 at 12:50

if i can install xp ok , i may attempt to update the bios and check the ram maybe?

chipps101 · 9 Jan 2010 at 12:52

check the hard drive for errors also

beachBOYken · 9 Jan 2010 at 13:02

chipps101 said:
check the hard drive for errors also

how do i do this please?

chipps101 · 9 Jan 2010 at 13:12

in my computer, right click your drive and click tools and error checking is there

beachBOYken · 9 Jan 2010 at 13:15

thanks will try that if it does'nt jam ive just updated bios but still seems to jam up but i have at least managed to get xp installed

thanks again

beachBOYken · 9 Jan 2010 at 16:32

hi again

well so far after getting xp back on and up to date its running fine.

my only problem is everything is a bit laggy since i changed the resolution?

chipps101 · 9 Jan 2010 at 17:05

no idea what that could be unless its driver related or the laptop throttling because of a heat issue.

Katoom · 9 Jan 2010 at 17:24

Has it got a Nvidia chip set? There are a lot of reports of them failing causing the G/CPU to overheat, throttle down and shut down.

Essexraptor · 9 Jan 2010 at 18:16

Well at least you've managed to get a OS installed!!

Are you using a resolution above or below your supported native screen size resolution?

GPU installed? may need driver update?

Iceman · 9 Jan 2010 at 19:30

Last time one of my laptops played up with similar symptoms i re sat the CPU with some thermal paste think it was arctic silver 5.
Since then it worked great till my GF stood on the screen lol.

beachBOYken · 9 Jan 2010 at 19:52

hi guys

in the end the lag was caused because i had forgot about installing my graphics card driver , all ok now

ive got my laptop up to date now and all seems good ,the lockups seem to have gone , so dont really know the cause of that?

Essexraptor · 9 Jan 2010 at 19:55

beachBOYken said:
hi guys

in the end the lag was caused because i had forgot about installing my graphics card driver , all ok now

ive got my laptop up to date now and all seems good ,the lockups seem to have gone , so dont really know the cause of that?

Graphics card driver

chipps101 · 9 Jan 2010 at 20:29

glad to know you got it all working again, but i still would recommend error checking the hd just in case.