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    Odd NP8662 Issue (HDD Maybe?)

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Jimko, Sep 24, 2009.

  1. Jimko

    Jimko Notebook Consultant

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    Hello!

    For some reason ive noticed just recently after 2 very unexpected shut downs (error report afterward detailed it as a BSOD) aaaaaand despite it being cool and happy it did this. Additionally ive noticed some bizarre little bits of lag suddenly.

    My major concern is the following:
    When i place my right hand on the right lower side (above the HDD) by itself, i notice that it is feeling almost magnetic or possibly off center and scraping something.

    I say magnetic however, in that when i place my left hand, or even a FINGER on any hard part of the bottom part of the laptop, it ceases to do this any more and i have tried this on various surfaces and it is away from any speakers or magnetic containing devices and am surely grounded with shoes on and all.

    Quite frankly: wth?

    Please and thank you for any help that could be provided
     
    Jimko, Sep 24, 2009
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  2. L4d_Gr00pie

    L4d_Gr00pie Notebook Evangelist

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    Hmm.. Could you post your temps? (hwmonitor)

    And also try getting the error number of the bsod if it does it again
     
    L4d_Gr00pie, Sep 25, 2009
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  3. Jimko

    Jimko Notebook Consultant

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    48 TZO
    32 Core 1
    32 Core 2
    44 GPU
    47 HDD

    All of which are MAX on CPUID hardware monitor in celsius. So far no other crashes, still weird though
     
    Jimko, Sep 25, 2009
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  4. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    those temps are perfect.

    download this free bit of software called WHO CRASHED and it will give a report on what the problem is when it does it again.
     
    MrDJ, Sep 25, 2009
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  5. milcs

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    The "magnetic" feeling, might have to do with the fact that you don't have your laptop "earthed". Try connecting the power suply to an earthed plug. That should take away the "magnetic" feeling.
     
    milcs, Sep 25, 2009
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  6. Neil McRae

    Neil McRae Notebook Evangelist

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    sounds like a problem I had. Had a strange strange issue where the machine would BSOD reporting it as a graphics failure when playing DVD's at a higher res than 640x400! Not sure what the fault was in the end as Kobalt ended up replacing the machine, but when we swapped hard drives the problem went away for a while so I do think it was related to temperature (the newer drive was cooler). Top service from the kobalt guys throughout.

    Regards,
    Neil.
     
    Neil McRae, Oct 9, 2009
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