Teso

Hi, I have been having trouble with this computer (Toshiba Satellelite A15 S1292, Windows XP S.1, Celeron 2.4 GHz, with 256 MB RAM originally[now it is 752 MB RAM]) almost the entire time I have had it. The problems began when the fan started to sound weird, then the battery just began to work erratically. I was able to fix the battery but the computer has to stay conected to the AC (if not, the battery will die out in minutes even though it say that it is totally "charged") The fan continued to sound weird but it caused no futher problems, maybe that the computer might work slower. However, the computer has been giving various different massage troughout the years and it gave me problems even when rebooting the whole computer (that is, using the recovery CD- it shows error messages saying something was wrong with some sectors or something and did not finished the reboot, therefore I had to start the process various times until it was able to finish the process) Recently, when I turned on the computer it just got stuck in the opening sequence and did not continued to Windows, so I turned it off ans restarted it again. But, once I turned it on it worked tremendously slow and the following message appeared (Apoint.exe- Bad Image The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\System32\VXDIF.DLL is not a valid Windows image. Please check this agaisnt your intallation diskette.) So I used the recovery CD again, but the message continues to appear and the computer continues to work tremendously slow. Any suggestions?

I kind of get the feeling that the fan problem damaged the hard drive and that the hard drive is just wasted.Will it be better to buy a new computer or what?

dai

download and run the hard drive makers diognostic utility on the hard drive
run
chkdsk /r /f
check if the h/drive has dropped back to pio mode
check your tempretures if they are up the cpu may be throttling back