Ok. So here's the Full Nelson. And this story will make me seem like I don't take care of my technology, but I do. Sometimes things happen and we all do things that make us look stupid. This is one of them.
I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop, AMD Turion 64 Mobile Pro., 1GB RAM, 54g 802.11/b WLAN, DVD Multi-Burner +/-RW Drive for $420.13 at a pawn shop with a SHITTY copy of XP on it. I absolutely LOVE this laptop. It does everything I need it to do. I wiped the copy of XP that was on it, put a 32-bit XP copy on it, patched and registered it, and put all my programs on it, and pretty much made it my own. As a matter of fact, I'm using it right now.
Couldn't be better. Well, maybe...
But anyway. It has worked perfectly ever since I got it. Never had ONE problem. Until...I took it into a "Refrigeration Room". I work in a Meat Dept. Now, the radio stations in the city I work in are not in my favor. I have OVER 9000!!1!
songs on my laptop. That's my "Safe Haven", if you will. The Dept. in the store is very cooled to about 40 degrees, MAYBE. Very cool, to make sure the meat won't produce much bacteria in that area while it's cut. I brought my laptop in there, and set it to play some music. I didn't have the volume cranked; just to 1/4 of the volume control, and 1/2 of the volume bar on RealPlayer. the music was playing as fine and clear as could be, until about 4 minutes later, the music started skipping. Now before I got into this story, I forgot to mention that if I turned up the audio to the max potential, it would skip and lag. Not sure why. Returning to the story, the audio started skipping. I went to the laptop, and turned the audio down some more. Skipping stopped, and then RETURNED. I got pissed, due to a fight at my house, and finally having to pwn everyone there, left in a rampage, ruining everyone's shit for the rest of the day. Including mine.
So I said "SHIT" after I tried to turn the volume down some more, but I couldn't, because it was lagging. So I PUNCHED IT!
Don't ask me why. I punched it where the sticker with the hand and laptop details was. AND THEN IT STOPPED SKIPPING. WTF?! So I just said "**** it!" and turned it off. I immediately removed it from the cooler, and put it into my bag. I felt so bad that I punched it. I finished out my day at work, and when I got on the bus to go home (yes, the bus; I like to save money on gas sometimes), I turned the notebook on. It was lagging TERRIBLY. It has been ever since. The situation now:
Audio plays, but it plays like it's on a scratched cd.
Video plays, but it plays like it's on a scratched dvd.
Programs run, but it's like my laptop has the processing power of a Windows 95 Desktop.
Booting time is 2 min. and 31 sec. in length (sometimes I don't see the Windows XP Boot Screen).
Shutdown time is 3 seconds longer than normal. (I changed my Logon and Shutdown sounds to clips of songs and shows to make me laugh.)
When I log on, my logon sound plays, but with the symptom of the scratched cd, and when I shut down, the shutdown audio skips for about 3 seconds, then plays fine the rest of the way.
My WLAN no longer boots.
I am still able to do all the things I normally do, just at an EXTREMELY SLOW pace.
With these symptoms in mind, I am going to try a few things:
1. Swap the hard drive with someone elses.
---this will signify the problem is not in the hard drive.
2. Swap the RAM.
---this will signify the problem is not in need of processing power.
3. Backup my data and Re-Install XP after a clean format.
---although there is no reason that a corrupted file would cause this, it's worth a try. If my data is backed up, what do I have to lose?
Now considering the things done to lead to the symptoms, this seems like an 87% chance this is hard-drive related. If my suggestions are related to your's, please inform me of yours nevertheless, and help me find a good place to buy a very good hard drive with at least 200 GB space, and a place that would have a decent priced chip of RAM (1GB). I need to upgrade anyway.
Thanks,
Steve.
And by the way, I DID look through the forums by searching, and found no information on this problem. So please don't suggest using the search button, because I already have. I'm not here to cause problems. I'm here to fix my laptop.
I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop, AMD Turion 64 Mobile Pro., 1GB RAM, 54g 802.11/b WLAN, DVD Multi-Burner +/-RW Drive for $420.13 at a pawn shop with a SHITTY copy of XP on it. I absolutely LOVE this laptop. It does everything I need it to do. I wiped the copy of XP that was on it, put a 32-bit XP copy on it, patched and registered it, and put all my programs on it, and pretty much made it my own. As a matter of fact, I'm using it right now.
Couldn't be better. Well, maybe...But anyway. It has worked perfectly ever since I got it. Never had ONE problem. Until...I took it into a "Refrigeration Room". I work in a Meat Dept. Now, the radio stations in the city I work in are not in my favor. I have OVER 9000!!1!
songs on my laptop. That's my "Safe Haven", if you will. The Dept. in the store is very cooled to about 40 degrees, MAYBE. Very cool, to make sure the meat won't produce much bacteria in that area while it's cut. I brought my laptop in there, and set it to play some music. I didn't have the volume cranked; just to 1/4 of the volume control, and 1/2 of the volume bar on RealPlayer. the music was playing as fine and clear as could be, until about 4 minutes later, the music started skipping. Now before I got into this story, I forgot to mention that if I turned up the audio to the max potential, it would skip and lag. Not sure why. Returning to the story, the audio started skipping. I went to the laptop, and turned the audio down some more. Skipping stopped, and then RETURNED. I got pissed, due to a fight at my house, and finally having to pwn everyone there, left in a rampage, ruining everyone's shit for the rest of the day. Including mine. So I said "SHIT" after I tried to turn the volume down some more, but I couldn't, because it was lagging. So I PUNCHED IT! Don't ask me why. I punched it where the sticker with the hand and laptop details was. AND THEN IT STOPPED SKIPPING. WTF?! So I just said "**** it!" and turned it off. I immediately removed it from the cooler, and put it into my bag. I felt so bad that I punched it. I finished out my day at work, and when I got on the bus to go home (yes, the bus; I like to save money on gas sometimes), I turned the notebook on. It was lagging TERRIBLY. It has been ever since. The situation now:Audio plays, but it plays like it's on a scratched cd.
Video plays, but it plays like it's on a scratched dvd.
Programs run, but it's like my laptop has the processing power of a Windows 95 Desktop.
Booting time is 2 min. and 31 sec. in length (sometimes I don't see the Windows XP Boot Screen).
Shutdown time is 3 seconds longer than normal. (I changed my Logon and Shutdown sounds to clips of songs and shows to make me laugh.)
When I log on, my logon sound plays, but with the symptom of the scratched cd, and when I shut down, the shutdown audio skips for about 3 seconds, then plays fine the rest of the way.
My WLAN no longer boots.
I am still able to do all the things I normally do, just at an EXTREMELY SLOW pace.
With these symptoms in mind, I am going to try a few things:
1. Swap the hard drive with someone elses.
---this will signify the problem is not in the hard drive.
2. Swap the RAM.
---this will signify the problem is not in need of processing power.
3. Backup my data and Re-Install XP after a clean format.
---although there is no reason that a corrupted file would cause this, it's worth a try. If my data is backed up, what do I have to lose?
Now considering the things done to lead to the symptoms, this seems like an 87% chance this is hard-drive related. If my suggestions are related to your's, please inform me of yours nevertheless, and help me find a good place to buy a very good hard drive with at least 200 GB space, and a place that would have a decent priced chip of RAM (1GB). I need to upgrade anyway.
Thanks,
Steve.
And by the way, I DID look through the forums by searching, and found no information on this problem. So please don't suggest using the search button, because I already have. I'm not here to cause problems. I'm here to fix my laptop.
