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My computer last night suddenly the audio stopped working and i hear the little dingle sound playing as if something got unplugged, at first i looked and thought it was just my headphones falling out of my laptop or something. But i noticed they are still plugged into the headphone jack on the side. So i go down to my audio on my taskbar and it is turned off. I clicked and it says there are no audio drivers or devices installed. Now im think Ok? what just happened so i go to my device manager and to my surprise under the audio section i see i very much DO in fact have my audio installed and no problems are shown. No other driver problems are showing as well. So i decide to look into the task manager, maybe something weird is running. So i close all my programs and folders and internet tabs and take a look. Nope nothing out of the ordinary is running. My cpu is running a steady 0% plenty or Ram space...etc...etc. So my next step is i decide to just restart my computer. So i turn it off and turn it back on, upon turning it on i get past my bios and my computer is taking a little while to load up windows, just a blank screen. So i go to move the mouse and push a key on my keyboard, when i do my screen dims all the ways down. And my keyboards which lights up all those lights dim and also start changing colors like a rainbow almost lol

Now im like..... WTF? So i try to boot into safe mode except that option is somehow gone and missing. So i have the option to boot normally or "repair" so i do startup repair. My computer checks itself and reports no problems, asks if i want to do a system restore back 4 days ago when i installed firefox, so i said yes. Well my computer then restarts after a few minutes and does the same blank screen. I have it "repair" again and says no problems anywhere. So i decide to reinstall windows 7 since i have the restore cd. I try that but it hangs after loading windows 7 drivers when i boot from the cd. So i try a live ubuntu cd and roughly same error while trying to load the live cd. So i start to think maybe a HDD failure

So i turn off my computer and make a bootable usb and was able to boot that and take all my personal data, pictures and files that i would not be able to recover and i was going to wipe the drive. Downloaded a hdd eraser program but that received an error when trying. So i go to try to install windows 7 once more and now bios does not even show up. Just a blank screen. So now im stumped, did something overheat suddenly? or on the verge of cracking and not broke?

So all this by noontime today, so i just closed the laptop and put it aside until later that night cause i was done and aggravated. So later that night i turn on y laptop and yay! bios started! AND my windows 7 disc runs and starts up. I take not a second to wipe the drive and start a fresh install of windows 7. Now im on my laptop just finished installing all my drivers and updating windows. I do a windows experience index. My laptop went from...

7.1 Processor
7.1 RAM
4.9 Graphics Card
4.9 Gaming graphics 4095 MB
5.9 Primary hard disk 400GB

to the now


6.5 Processor
7.3 RAM
6.9 Graphics Card
6.9 Gaming graphics 4095 MB
5.9 Primary hard disk 400GB

So running the same hardware and software as i didnt have much installed in the first place and i regularly clean my laptop outside and in i now have better performance.

Any explanations here?? Im happy it seems all problems have been gone but im weary something it just hiding?

Very small monkeys got into the laptop through the usb port and were messing around with the wires and stuff. After they got bored and left everything has been changed.

Either that or Windows 7 Performance Estimates are bollocks.


Oh yes thats right, Windows 7 Performance Estimates are bollocks, I just remembered.

" Very small monkeys got into the laptop through the usb port and were messing around with the wires and stuff. After they got bored and left everything has been changed."

Must have been the "Microsoft Monkeys", doing their random check of verifying your copy of Windows 7 was authentic, and as we know anything from Microsoft is not well trained, or trainable. ( An exception to that is their well trained $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ collectors. )

lol.

I have an issue myself, where when I play World of Warcraft this laptop, having 16 GB DDR3-1333 MHz RAM (Dual Channel), a quad core hyperthreaded 2.2 GHz (turbo boost to 3.1 GHz) intel i7 2670QM processor, dual 500 GB 7,200 RPM HDDs (sATA), and a 2 GB dedicated, 2 GB shared (total of 4 GB) Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M chipset... Where having all of that it still pulls me out of WoW and asks me to change the theme and visual settings because it's not performing properly or something... every fucking time...

It's really, really annoying.

haha damn them they need to quite monkeying around

Everything seems to be running smoothly now only problem is my HDD seems to be running a little hot :S not sure how it has always ran so unsure if it has always been like this. Right now i have nothing but my chrome browser open on this tab and google and whatever applications run at startup and the temperature is 62 °C

perhaps a fan has went out. as far as a HDD failure, this could be a possibility. you said you had an error trying to run an Ubuntu disc.. did this error occur while loading it, or actually trying to install to disc? if it done it while simply loading, then it signifies a different problem, as a live cd doesn't access your HDD to run (until installation) as it can be run without a HDD present.

as far as the WEI goes, it may fluxuate a bit, but i've never seen it jump that far around. back to the fan issue.. if you do indeed have a malfunction in the cooling, your system may be downclocking itself to keep the heat within limits.

the errors where showing up as it was loading the ubuntu live cd. Roughly the same time as if i booted into my windows 7 dvd and it is loading the windows drivers about 1/2 way if stops.

but i was able to boot ubuntu from a usb and run from there to save some files onto a flash drive that i would not be able to get back.

As for the cooling, my fan has always been iffy. Right after the warranty expired my fan has been making noise when it runs. Like it is hitting on something. Already taken it apart and cleaned all the dust and everything. When the fan is running i can push down on the upper top right hand corner a little and the noise goes away.

I dont think the cd/dvd drive is faulty as it is brand new and i upgraded to bluray. All tests that i have done come back 100% good and clean.

Hot Trout wrote:Either that or Windows 7 Performance Estimates are bollocks.

Hehe. Bollocks.


So yeah, I am the king of weird shit happening to me with computers. I remember buying a never used HDD for my old computer. I install it and install windows XP on it and after a few minutes running I had a fork-flinging sound and a rock scratching a plate sound. I get a BSOD and the computer dies. The Lesson here boys and girls is never use a HDD with the words "Quantum Fireball" on it.

The original hard drive also had a weird problem where there was some sort of permament etch in the disk when were it reads it would crash the computer. So I was at a lost . My friend had of idea of telling me of splitting the HDD into 2 partitions and using the "good" half. So I split it and tried installing windows (which would freeze in mid installing) and saw it froze and knew which one was the "bad" side. and I reinstalled on the the other partition and it worked lol. Weird huh! I need to make a online blog called Phil's Phlog

GozmitJosh wrote:the errors where showing up as it was loading the ubuntu live cd. Roughly the same time as if i booted into my windows 7 dvd and it is loading the windows drivers about 1/2 way if stops.

but i was able to boot ubuntu from a usb and run from there to save some files onto a flash drive that i would not be able to get back.

As for the cooling, my fan has always been iffy. Right after the warranty expired my fan has been making noise when it runs. Like it is hitting on something. Already taken it apart and cleaned all the dust and everything. When the fan is running i can push down on the upper top right hand corner a little and the noise goes away.

I dont think the cd/dvd drive is faulty as it is brand new and i upgraded to bluray. All tests that i have done come back 100% good and clean.

pretty sure its not a HDD issue then. look into replacing that fan, or the wires that go to it may need some fixing (shorts, etc). if you can get into a live cd again, you should check your HDD disk health just to be sure. i think it's called 'smart status' or something like that - from either gparted or diskutility (cant remember which) also, i would try some various programs/check in the bios and see what your cpu/ram clock speeds are running at startup and after it gets a bit warmed up. that should tell you if youre being downclocked.

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