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    Faulty nx6110 price?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by timos, Nov 22, 2008.

  1. timos

    timos Newbie

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    Hi,

    I’ve been offered an old laptop (for €50). The thing is, it blue screens...
    I previously had a go at trying to find out more about the specific error but Google didn’t really help at all ("IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL", related to usbuhci.sys).

    I had a play with it before, and found the BS's only happen a few minutes after you first boot up the laptop. If it successfully passed these few initial minutes (for whatever reason), it was fine from there on. Moreover it would stay fine even if you put it into standby, only shutting it down caused the same issue to return (seems to suggest it’s not a hardware fault?).
    I ran some prime95 tests to see if it was temp dependent, doesn’t seem to be...

    What I really want to know though is given this issue, do you think the price is right? What do you think it would be worth in working condition?

    HP nx6110
    1.6GHz Pentium M
    256Mb
    40gb
     
    timos, Nov 22, 2008
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  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    It's an old laptop, a working laptop with the same specs I would expect to cost 50-75 euros... not worth it IMO since that thing might have a bad motherboard.
     
    Hep!, Nov 22, 2008
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    darkmax Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have you tried a windows reinstall ?
     
    darkmax, Nov 22, 2008
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    timos Newbie

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    Thanks for the replies. Actually no, I myself haven't tried a reinstall. I figured that would have been the first thing the previous owner would have tried, but maybe ill make sure...

    But I guess unless I solve it, it's not worth it.

    Thanks.
     
    timos, Nov 23, 2008
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