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Hey all,
I'm looking at a Presario CQ61-110SA for a friend and have been flummoxed by the problem. I agreed to take it in after someone else installed a new screen and then decided something had been spilled all over the keyboard and Mobo. No sign of any problems there. The guy had tried to install Vista on the machine but had obviously encountered problems and handed it back. So I had a look.........
- Trying to install Windows 7 on a clean drive and the damn thing hangs on the Windows load screen; the four coloured windows come together but then sit there. Left the machine overnight and found it in the same state next morning.
- Plumped for throwing XP just in case and the machine hung on installing devices. Retried numerous times and eventually it slipped through and loaded.
- I ran a gamut of tests on memory, HD and CPU (including 6 hours on Hot CPU Pro) all returning no errors. So tried to load Win 7 from XP as an update; install hangs on preparing to setup.
- It has an utterly useless BIOS with most of the options greyed out (F.23) so I thought I'd flash to a more customisable BIOS. Using Insydeflash the program just hangs after starting, not a dickie bird from it. Cant force a close and when trying to shut down Windows XP the machine hangs and forces me to hard reboot.
- I'm thinking it of picking up a new memory module but thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone had any bright ideas?
Thanks in advance.
DB
I'm looking at a Presario CQ61-110SA for a friend and have been flummoxed by the problem. I agreed to take it in after someone else installed a new screen and then decided something had been spilled all over the keyboard and Mobo. No sign of any problems there. The guy had tried to install Vista on the machine but had obviously encountered problems and handed it back. So I had a look.........
- Trying to install Windows 7 on a clean drive and the damn thing hangs on the Windows load screen; the four coloured windows come together but then sit there. Left the machine overnight and found it in the same state next morning.
- Plumped for throwing XP just in case and the machine hung on installing devices. Retried numerous times and eventually it slipped through and loaded.
- I ran a gamut of tests on memory, HD and CPU (including 6 hours on Hot CPU Pro) all returning no errors. So tried to load Win 7 from XP as an update; install hangs on preparing to setup.
- It has an utterly useless BIOS with most of the options greyed out (F.23) so I thought I'd flash to a more customisable BIOS. Using Insydeflash the program just hangs after starting, not a dickie bird from it. Cant force a close and when trying to shut down Windows XP the machine hangs and forces me to hard reboot.
- I'm thinking it of picking up a new memory module but thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone had any bright ideas?
Thanks in advance.
DB
