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Posted by Barry Watzman on November 21, 2005, 9:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options Not sure I can help you, but fwiw, the hard drive is either not spinning
at all or spinning at the one single speed that it has. Under no
circumstance should it spin at any other speed.
[your problem sounds like a dirty heatsink, but I'll take your word for
it that you have eliminated that as a cause.]
JM wrote:
> I've posted this before, but I had not observed the problem as much as now.
> The problem has rendered the laptop completely useless.
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> It is a Presario 2700 series. It started shutting down unexpectedly. The
> shutdowns seemed to be preceeded by the hard drive and cpu fan spinning at
> very high rates. Soon it got to where it would not boot. I would get the
> boot screen, then it would BSOD and recycle. Anytime I turn it on the fan
> and hard drive start spinning full speed. The only time I got it to boot
> all the way to Windows the hard drive and fan were not spinning. There
> definately is a correlation between everything spinning like crazy and the
> computer not booting or crashing.
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> The problem does not appear to be heat related, unless there is a separation
> of the heatsink/fan from the cpu that I cannot see. I have put large fans
> at the duct in the back of the laptop, as well as put the laptop right next
> to an open window while it's cold outside.
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> Any suggestions as to how to proceed greatly appreciated.
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> Thank you,
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> jm
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