Stan...you may very well have a bad CPU Fan....causing the CPU to
overheat, and the system to crash. If you are not in the mood to open up
the unit, I would suggest that you attempt the fsck progs and if they
don't yield an answer, you would be well advised to take it to a
reputable service provider for accurate diagnosis, and an estimate for
repair.
Mike
Stan Baptista wrote:
re: Clarify your situation and perhaps more knowledge
will arise.
I've got a Compaq Presario 2701T laptop purchased @1.5
years ago from CompUSA.
I'm running Windows XP Pro Edition and the OS
installed with the system was XP Home Edtion.
Symptoms:
1) Whirring sound (like a fan) when running which
wasn't the case when things were fine and beautiful.
The sound will sometimes kick into high gear and that
is the system's signal that it is about to crash.
2) Sometimes the system boots and sometimes it
doesn't. If it fails, I'll get the XP version of the
blue screen of death. (The sceen isn't blue but the
text which indicates the crash address and other
diagnostic info is.)
3) If it manages to boot successfully, several system
failure errors are generated. Sometimes that's eough
to halt the system, sometimes not.
4) If I can proceed at all (which lately is not the
case) then evetually the whirring noise gets loud
enough and then BOOM.
Hope that helps and actually the commentary on
experience w/ various stores is helpful.
If the disk really has crashed then I would, of
course, love to recover as much as possible. However,
it's not absolutely mandatory and any recovery process
costing significant $$s (say anything beyond $10) will
probably get a pass from me.)
Thanks,
Stan
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