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RE: [PLUG] Laptop Hardware Troubles?
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Title: RE: [PLUG] Laptop Hardware Troubles?
if you have one, can you remove the HD and put it into an external
USB adapter, hook it to another PC, and try to write to the HD.
If it writes OK, it might be the HD controller on the laptop, which
I'm assuming is the motherboard. Also, Is there a battery on the
motherboard that you can try replacing, as well as said, check your
memory, although I don't see how that would affect the system only
when you are writing..but..
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
>[mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of
>cshanahan@comcast.net
>Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:50 PM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: [PLUG] Laptop Hardware Troubles?
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I hope everyone is having a great holiday season.
>
>If possible, could I get some insight from the list regarding
>a hardware problem
>I'm having with my --I can't live without it!-- laptop? Its a
>Toshiba Satellite
>2435-S255 running WinXP Pro and SuSE Linux 9.2 Pro. Last
>evening the laptop
>started acting strange, shutting down without warning, over
>and over again. I
>thought Windows was messed up and decided to copy a saved image of my
>Windows partition back to the NTFS partition--as opposed to
>reinstalling
>Windows. I image all my partitions from time to time so I can
>recover from
>crashes without too much trouble.
>
>Anyway, when I tried to write to the hard drive the laptop
>crashed again after a
>few minutes of writing. I tried various file system tools on
>both the Linux (Reiser
>and Ext2) file systems and the NTFS file system using Knoppix
>(v.3.7) and
>SystemRescueCd (v.0.2.15) but did not detect any errors, such
>as bad blocks.
>The laptop will run all day long without problems, provided I
>don't try to write to
>the hard drive. For example, I can start the laptop using
>Knoppix and it'll run fine
>all day. As soon as I try to write to the hard drive the
>laptop crashes.
>
>This afternoon I picked up a new hard drive and installed it.
>Put a copy of WinXP
>Pro in the CD-ROM and restarted the machine. After a few
>minutes of formatting
>the machine crashed as it has been doing. With that in mind,
>the problem
>doesn't appear to be with the hard drive.
>
>Has anyone has similar problems with a laptop recently? Any
>ideas what the
>trouble could be? I've never had to have a laptop repaired and
>I'm worried about
>spending a fortune. I don't even know where to take a laptop
>to get fixed. I fix
>all my own PCs so I'm not in the habit of using PC repair shops.
>
>Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA and have a great new year!
>
>Chris/CMS
>
>PS -- Sorry if this message doesn't wrap correctly. I'm stuck
>using Comcast's
>Web-based e-mail for the moment.
>
>
>
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