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update of the hardware problems
ok i posted the problems i had a while back. the computer runs super slow all the time, takes 10min to boot. was told by best buy it could be motherboard, people on here said its overheating/harddrive, and ive heard memory problem. heres a list of stuff that ive noted wrong:
-I ran hitachi drive fitness test, it would freeze on the advanced, the quick test passed.
-dell diagnostics took over 2 hrs for just the ide disk confidence test.
-when i startup in Safe mode computer boots faster, still lags a little but not as bad.
-i ran scandisk it took over an hour once it got to Phase 4.
-i ran i8fangui computer runs about 44c
so i think it would be harddrive...? some smartass at work is saying im wrong, and its memory problem and insists that he fixes my girlfriends because he is going to college to do computer science... i have a friend that said he will take out the harddrive and try it on his computer to see if thats the problem.
anyones opinions, advice??? thanks!
inspiron 5100
- If your friend has a 5100 that is configured the same as yours, take him up on his suggestion. Don't do it if his machine is different. If you have two sticks of memory, try running with just one or the other. Your problem does sound like a hard drive though, if I remember your other posts, didn't you hear some weird noises as well?
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Posted April 4th, 2005 18:00
I vote for a flaky hard drive.
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