HP dv6500 with XP boot issues...

Hello all,

After about 5 days of work and formatting and reformatting I am here. Any help would be appreciated. I will try to explain my story in short. Details of my system

HP dv6500t
Core 2 duo t7500 2.2 GHz
2 GB ram
all the standard features.

I was running on a 80 gig Western Digital wd800BEVS that came with the laptop..
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=314

After Vista crashed and I used chkdsk it showed me some bad sectors...I still managed to install XP on the recovery partition that HP has..(It would stall the install of XP when I tried installing on the main partition) this was done by slipping the sata drivers in the installation cd..But all in vain...it crashed twice and the HDD was unusable after that.

anyways.....I got a new HDD from seagate...(250 Gig means more space for downloads ha ha...) see link below...

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...a3f9110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&reqPage=Model

I installed a clean copy of XP...it works perfectly when it starts and all...problem is sometimes it does not boot..when I press the power button the hp screen with all the function buttons comes up and then everything goes blank...nothing happens...fan does start spinning high though...but then if I go ahead and shutdown and restart using the power button it comes right up and starts like nothing happened...no error messages...nothing...I have all the latest drivers installed from this forum (thanks a lot)...this did not seem to work either...

If anyone has a solution or advice it would be greatly appreciated. I am kindda in a rush and towards my graduation and all this is holding me back...Once again..when the laptop does start it works like a perfect machine...no problems..it is just that it does not boot sometimes..there are NO blue screens or nothing of that sort...

Is the problem with new HDD (compatibilty issue) or do I have to do something differently...I did read about the (3 GB/s and 1.5 GB/s issue in another thread)...Also I can try a fresh install but I would like to avoid that...If anyone of you have had this problem and know a solution please please let me know..I am frustrated with this....

thanks in advance

 

It doesnt sound like a driver issue.
Take the drive out of your laptop, and use the little jumper on the side of the drive to set the harddrive into SATA 150 mode.

Let us know if that works for you.

If you are still getting problems, go into the BIOS after turning the machine on.
Is the harddrive being detected every time you boot the system?

K-TRON

 

will the jumper be on the old hard drive or the new one...I am just curious as to if we run it in 1.5 Gb/s wouldn't that defy the purpose of a fast drive....If I may ask a noob question ?? how does it affect the speed of the HDD when we do that switch to SATA 150 mode...

I will do that and let you know...thanks for the reply...

 

No mechanical 2.5" laptop harddrive can max out the SATA 150 interface.
You will loose no performance going from SATA 300 to SATA 150 mode.

The switch is on the side of your Seagate harddrive.


It is to the right of the SATA port in that image.
There are 4 pins on the drive.
The label on the seagate drive will tell you which two pins need a jumper on them, to set the drive to SATA 150 mode
I think when the jumper is on the two farthest pins from the SATA port, the drive is set into SATA 150 mode

K-TRON

 

Thanks K-TRON.........I need to get my hands on a jumper though...Is there any way this would work without the jumper...

thanks..

 

I tried the jumper solution today...still no luck...it looked like it did solve the issue when it did boot like 6 times in a row...but on the 7th and 9th boot..it went nuts and could not figure out where to boot from...I used the jumper as you said...any other thoughts???