Laptop Help!!!!!

Think my laptop is on its way out, Everytime I log off, and restart it goes to a screen where it says something like "FIX PROBLEM" when going to that screen it just stays blank, but a couple of days a go it went to a blue screen where it took nearly 2 hrs too go through the sequence of fixing. It shut down and went to the exact screen. I give up for a few hrs came back to it and it totally restored my laptop to original settings "luckily most my stuff is on external HD. Now whats happening regularly is a screen coming up to fix my computer. do that and they cant find anything. After about an hour of being on it, it freezes and shuts down and goes through the sequence of trying to fix it

Sorry about the waffling but thats the best I can explain

Please Help

try a new hard drive in it?

Think my laptop is on its way out, Everytime I log off, and restart it goes to a screen where it says something like "FIX PROBLEM" when going to that screen it just stays blank, but a couple of days a go it went to a blue screen where it took nearly 2 hrs too go through the sequence of fixing. It shut down and went to the exact screen. I give up for a few hrs came back to it and it totally restored my laptop to original settings "luckily most my stuff is on external HD. Now whats happening regularly is a screen coming up to fix my computer. do that and they cant find anything. After about an hour of being on it, it freezes and shuts down and goes through the sequence of trying to fix it

Sorry about the waffling but thats the best I can explain

Please Help

Back up the data you have, and do a complete system restore.
Happened to mine before, and it solved the problem.

Cheers lads, I have tried it seems to work for a little while then freezes, shuts down and goes to the fix screen again

have you put a different hard drive in and tried that matty?

Dunno where to start to be honest how do i change the hard drive, i have a spare laptop ere too....

any tips?

http://www.fonerbooks.com/laptop_1.htm

Dunno where to start to be honest how do i change the hard drive, i have a spare laptop ere too....

any tips?

where do you live matty?
whats the makes and models of the laptops?

Papa,

Living in aberdare mate, the spare laptop which i think the screen is naff is a Advent 7096

the 1 on the way out is a presario cq 60 compaq, hewlett packard

dunno if that helps

Take it to compushack in the market, they do a good job.

Papa,

Living in aberdare mate, the spare laptop which i think the screen is naff is a Advent 7096

the 1 on the way out is a presario cq 60 compaq, hewlett packard

dunno if that helps

im in penarth fella bit far
i would have swopped the hard drives over for you and put windows 7 on it to see if that sorted it

Ahhh gutted, The spare HD i have is windows xp, it wont make any difference will it as the other is vista??? going to give it a bash now

Ahhh gutted, The spare HD i have is windows xp, it wont make any difference will it as the other is vista??? going to give it a bash now

the hard drive will need formatting,have you got the vista recovery disc?
and you`ll have to make sure they are the same type of hard drive as there are IDE and SATA versions

first post but i dont mind helping out a fellow bluebird copy and paste the link in your browser its a copy of windows seven ultimate 32bit(and its clean no dodgy stuff)--

http://thedigitalkeys.com/win7/XWindows ... e32bit.iso

might take a while but be patient then grab this its a free program to burn it with--

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Too ... Burn.shtml

burn the dvd at as slow a speed as possible to prevent errors and make sure u tick the verify disc option to test it.

then grab this its a loader that u will need when u have installed it works perfectly i been using it for months

http://www.multiupload.com/2VG8R4JBIN

install windows seven using the disc u burned then run the loader (just press "install") and u are done microsoft think u have a genuine windows and u can download any updates u might need.

Papa

HDs are different, just taken me half hour to get computer back on, this time using "Last known good start up" it seemed to work ok.

Murphyblue, Thanks for all the info, I honestly think its something to do with the HD so no point in downloading what you put up yet, i am looking into a new laptop at the moment. I cant keep on using this 1.

Thanks anyway

Papa

HDs are different, just taken me half hour to get computer back on, this time using "Last known good start up" it seemed to work ok.

Murphyblue, Thanks for all the info, I honestly think its something to do with the HD so no point in downloading what you put up yet, i am looking into a new laptop at the moment. I cant keep on using this 1.

Thanks anyway

try it for a while may just have been loose fingers crossed

u could run a disk check open up start/my computer and right click on c:/ drive a window opens and click the tool tab click the top option "check now" u usually have to restart and it might take a while but be patient and let it finish.

once restarted go to start/accessories and u will see "command prompt" right click it and click "run as administrator" then type in sfc/scannow this will check system files that may have become corrupted.

if it still playing up i would suggest getting a new harddrive they are much cheaper than buying a new laptop.

Papa

HDs are different, just taken me half hour to get computer back on, this time using "Last known good start up" it seemed to work ok.

Murphyblue, Thanks for all the info, I honestly think its something to do with the HD so no point in downloading what you put up yet, i am looking into a new laptop at the moment. I cant keep on using this 1.

Thanks anyway

Buy a new hardrive, shop around i only paid about £30 18 months ago..Got it next day delivery from here...

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Search/Hard-Drives-Storage/Laptop-Hard-Drives/

Piece of cake to swap em over, cheaper than buying a new laptop mate, mines still going strong..

Just a quick ????

How do i know what hard drive it is??? i have taken it out once i dont want to do it again

Cheers

matty

if u go to control panel and click on device manager/ disk drives it will tell u what it is the main part to look out for will be at the end of the line i.e. ATA or SATA

Just a quick ????

How do i know what hard drive it is??? i have taken it out once i dont want to do it again

Cheers

matty

Go to the manafactures website, put the laptop model number in the search on there and you should get all the spec of your laptop..