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    HP DV9010 - Weird issue...

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Whenkatz, Jan 14, 2010.

  1. Whenkatz

    Whenkatz Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a 3 year old HP DV9010tx. It seems to have developed a strange problem... It will BSOD and do a core dump even while idling... [Pretty much doing nothing, just sitting on my table and looking pretty]. After each BSOD, my windows partition gets corrupted [it will not boot]. I would need to repair it and make an entry in the Boot Sector, for it to boot again.

    It originally came with a Media center edition of Windows and I had upgraded it to a Vista about 2 years back.

    At first I though that the issue was with the OS and have reinstalled the OS couple of times. This doesn't seem to help. I have also tried to see if it was an issue with the HDD. I defragged it and also ran the Error check to see it there were any Bad sectors.

    This baby of mine has seen its share of problems, It had a Motherboard replaced, due to the nvidia Go7600 meltdown. Now the DVD RW drive will not function [I think it is dead]. :( I am using my Western Digital USB drive, which I have made bootable, to install/repair the windows partition.

    I am a little lost at what is causing these issues... :confused: Any help, pointers, suggestions are welcome.
     
    Whenkatz, Jan 14, 2010
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    Most likely bad memory. Download and boot memtest86+ to know for sure.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Jan 14, 2010
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    Th3_uN1Qu3 - I did run the memtest86+ and had it running for 9+ hours and it did not report any problems... Pic attached...

    Any thoughts on where I should look next ?
     

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    That's clean. Check for any temperature issues, also try to put the hard drive in the other bay.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Jan 15, 2010
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    would you recommend any specific utility that I should use to test the temperature ?

    Edit: I used the "Notebook Hardware control" utility and it states that my HDD-0 [primary] is running HOT at greater than or equal to 55 C... How do I decrease the HDD temperateue ??

    Edit: Uploaded the images... it was idling when I took these... so it is at 53 C
     

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    A notebook HDD is going to run hot. 55C is still acceptable.

    Does it corrupt the boot sector even if you reboot out of Safe Mode? I'm starting to suspect a driver issue.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Jan 16, 2010
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    There is no consistent way to know when it will reboot and corrupt the boot sector.

    Is there any way to identify if it really is a driver issue ?
     
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    Well my money is still on the HDD then... Get Hiren's Boot CD and try scanning the drive with MHDD or Victoria. If there are any bad sectors they will surely show up, the BIOS test only does a minor check based on the SMART parameters, which don't always go down when a drive gets bad.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Jan 18, 2010
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