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KRimminal · 07-16-2008, 07:45 PM

Hey guys !

I've been having some problems with my HP nx7400 that is really spooking me out. The problems started a month ago, but because of school I haven't been able to act on it and had to learn to live with it (if this can be called living).

So... A previously perfectly-working system started to freeze up in the most awkward of moments:

- First I blamed the power cable, but I ruled that out when I switched cable
- I then blamed heating of the CPU but it freezes even at 49 C
- It never freezes while it's on battery power
- It freezes when I plug it in (about 50 % of the times I manage to plug it in without having it freeze up)
- If I manage to make it work w/ it plugged in, I'm deadly afraid to move it because "physical activity" seems to set it off. Again, most duplications of results (90% of the times it's plugged in) happen if I move the lid (which makes me suspect faulty wiring !?)
- Other 10%, it will just randomly freeze up after a couple of hours of media (music - movies -- didn't experience any freezes when I just reading a .pdf / writing a document)
- I have ran memtest / an hdd diagnostic tool, which both came up empty.
- I have also tried to boot off a linux CD but it also froze in the same conditions.

Googling didn't help.
If anyone is familiar with anything like this ...
Thanks loads !
Cheers !

07-16-2008, 07:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
KRimminal Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3 OS: xp sp2	HP nx7400 freezes Hey guys ! I've been having some problems with my HP nx7400 that is really spooking me out. The problems started a month ago, but because of school I haven't been able to act on it and had to learn to live with it (if this can be called living). So... A previously perfectly-working system started to freeze up in the most awkward of moments: - First I blamed the power cable, but I ruled that out when I switched cable - I then blamed heating of the CPU but it freezes even at 49 C - It never freezes while it's on battery power - It freezes when I plug it in (about 50 % of the times I manage to plug it in without having it freeze up) - If I manage to make it work w/ it plugged in, I'm deadly afraid to move it because "physical activity" seems to set it off. Again, most duplications of results (90% of the times it's plugged in) happen if I move the lid (which makes me suspect faulty wiring !?) - Other 10%, it will just randomly freeze up after a couple of hours of media (music - movies -- didn't experience any freezes when I just reading a .pdf / writing a document) - I have ran memtest / an hdd diagnostic tool, which both came up empty. - I have also tried to boot off a linux CD but it also froze in the same conditions. Googling didn't help. If anyone is familiar with anything like this ... Thanks loads ! Cheers !