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    Boot troubles

    Discussion in 'HP' started by kge420, Feb 2, 2008.

  1. kge420

    kge420 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Having trouble booting my HP 2120us. The problem is random. When the machine goes to sleep it sometimes won't wake up. I then need to power off and on. Powering off and on sometimes takes two or three tries. When the machine is running it is fine, no problems. I'm thinking a HDD failure is in my future but don't know how to check it. I run the HDD check in the BIOs menu and it returned no problems found. I tried resettintg the memory and that didn't work either. Any clues? Thanks, Keith
     
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    caveman Notebook Consultant

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    well i sometimes have the same thing, but for me since I use laptopvideo2go graphics drivers, it is probably the newest version i installed (171.16) because the ones i used before that never gave that problem. So I would try update your graphics drivers (and other drivers too). Because if your hdd is going bad then i would think more things would also have issues.
     
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