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    5-6 second freezes during gaming on a new dv7 (sandy) while the disk led is on.

    Discussion in 'HP' started by leladax, May 22, 2011.

  1. leladax

    leladax Notebook Guru

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    Is it safe to use this? http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...22-seagate-st9500420as-firmware-update-5.html

    I'm worried because the firmware is different there (the firrmware they start with). Though the model number is identical, that makes me hopeful.


    The problem I have is that every once in a while, say about 30-40 minutes, the disk led will go on and gaming (or other apps too) will go unresponsive. After those seconds it's perfect again.

    I've tried low level diagnostics but it appears it's close to hardware. And I suspect it's close to hard disk. And perhaps is power saving being malfuctioning.

    I think some people will never notice since it's not important on office applications.
     
    leladax, May 22, 2011
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    taxmantoo Notebook Evangelist

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    If your dv7 has a Samsung drive in it, I wouldn't be in any hurry to cram Seagate firmware updates into it. If you have 500GB/7200rpm in a HP, it's probably a HM500JJ.

    Your problem could be Windows Indexing Service.
     
    taxmantoo, May 22, 2011
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    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    +1 to post above.

    It freezes because something is accessing the disk.You can try to use a taskmanager to see the programs reading/writing.

    Might be a good idea to check the HDD temps as well.
     
    The_Observer, May 23, 2011
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    leladax Notebook Guru

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    It's a Seagate identical to that thread but the BIOS version appears different. The model of the laptop is dv7-5000, not a typical American.

    As I said, it's not definitely software related since resource monitors do not show anything in particular. And when they show something on high latency [when the problem occurs], it's usually a new random one every time.

    I suspect it's low level sleep related. But the disk doesn't sleep since I've tried both 1 minute sleep and 60 minute sleep with same behavior resulting and it's a main system disk anyway (no other disk around) [i.e. it won't be able to sleep easily].

    I tried newest chipset and bus drivers and I've yet to conclude but it appears it may still be there.

    It's not that simple. Trust me. I've run computers for 20 years.

    [The system is generally VERY low on resources use during operations since I've disabled all kinds of searching, indexing, antivirus scanning etc. services. And that shows on resource monitor very clearly. I can literally see only 3 to 4 processes accessing the disk max at most times and they don't do much more than a few bytes.]



    I did a checkdisk which found records that point to freed space and they were fixed but I suspect that's minor and won't effect it.
     
    leladax, May 23, 2011
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