Posts by bohm

the HDD is only about 1.5 years old, it's done exceptionally well up to this point. I did manage to back up all my documents and stuff while in safe mode before I tried the repair (80GB transfer took 2 days almost... Safe Mode is so...

I just ran a repair earlier today (I think... it gets kind of confusing after starting the XP disk) and.... voila! no freezes! Its been running for over an hour now and no sign of any problems. I'm still a bit hesitant to think its...

So I've noticed that before it freezes in Task Manager that the process "System" is running at 85,740 K. I had Task Manager open and the computer froze on me just a minute ago, I was still able to navigate around in Task...

Both the externals are 3.5" drives. I do have a case where I can use a 2.5" as an external though, maybe I could use that for the current drive if I do have to upgrade to another HDD. I have a buddy who has some spare...

It wasn't either of the sticks of memory. The computer froze after about 5 minutes on each stick. Is it possible to re-install XP and keep all of my stuff on the computer or do I have to lose it all? I might be able to back it up on...

Was able to clean it out and get it up and running and it froze on me again. The cursor is still able to move around but no programs open when I click them, and the clock doesn't change time. This time after starting it up it was 7...

Do you think running the XP disk to repair would catch it perchance? To avoid re-formatting the whole thing. And I ripped it apart and cleaned out the fans and the heat sinks but nothing looked too dusty. I must have missed some sort...

Its been a while since I've been on the inside of the laptop and cleaned out the fans. But I opened up the I8kFanGUI right on startup and kicked the fans to high speed and the temps seemed pretty reasonable, maybe mid-lo 40s for the...

Hi all, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I've been having some issues with my E1705 recently. I was just using it for the normal internet browsing/ iTunes playing sort of thing the other day when it up and froze...

Alright, it shows it as the correct in CPU-Z, but still shown as the old one under My Computer. So I take it that it's still being fully utilized as the 2.16 GHz and not the 1.66 then?