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    Old laptop?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by wackydude1234, Mar 31, 2008.

  1. wackydude1234

    wackydude1234 Notebook Evangelist

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    Well i have an old Dell inspiron 2650.

    The reason i got a new laptop is because it started giving me a boot error i usually fixed this with fixboot or a reinstall of windows.
    But my dad is in need of a laptop and i thought about giving him this one however i reinstalled windows and it worked fine the first few days but today it's given me a new error that i've never seen before.

    PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
    0x0000006B (0xc0000034, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

    Please someone tell me what's wrong is my HDD failing in it or something?

    Any fixes welcome :)
     
    wackydude1234, Mar 31, 2008
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  2. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    put your hdd in other laptop and see if it works!
     
    Xirurg, Mar 31, 2008
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  3. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    One of your hardware parts is failing since doing a clean install rules out a software issue. Im guessing its the HDD

    You can try taking out the RAM and only use them individually.

    Google the error that you get, see what other troubleshooters diagnosed it as
     
    flipfire, Mar 31, 2008
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  4. wackydude1234

    wackydude1234 Notebook Evangelist

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    well it seems ok now just booted it from last known config or what ever it's called an no blue screenie of death.

    just hope it still works after shutdown
     
    wackydude1234, Mar 31, 2008
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  5. kobe_24

    kobe_24 Notebook Deity

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    It would be better to trouble shoot the cause of the problem before you give the notebook to your dad, since the issue seems to occur quite frequently.
     
    kobe_24, Mar 31, 2008
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