Recent content by JaCKo

No, not yet. I'll probably get it next month, short holiday first, then a new machine for work ... well, play too of course. Qapla' xD

Well, I went and tried troubleshooting the problem with HP support and they couldn't figure it out either. You guys did a hell of a job, compared to them. Thanx again. I've come to termsand decided it was enough. I'm scrapping the computer for parts and throwing it away. Better luck with the...

Cybercore, just to answer to your post. The computer worked fine with an earlier version of bios when it was running on both cores, but that didn't last long, a day. When it restarted I couldn't get the other core going anymore, updated the bios and...well, slow to snail. And I did reinstall...

I've been swamped with work, sorry for writing back so late! The battery experiment didn't work, but thanks anyway. If anyone gets any ideas, please post, I'll try to get in touch with HP about the problem, but otherwise it seems to be a hardware problem. I suppose the motherboard could be...

No, I'd have to buy one...and that is currently not an option. This is a "new" drive, it worked fine until the bios upgrade.

Sorry, working all day... I press the right cursor and it takes a while for bios to react. Its not swift! Thats the default setting, should I enable it? It takes like 4 hours, so I didn't bother because its not a win7 problem as it seems. or it would install normally.

Right...for some wierd reason the screenshot with device configurations doesn't want to upload!! Just wierd! Everything is enabled except for "virtualization technology" and "HDD translation mode" is bit-shift instead of LBA-assisted, thats it.

Hi cybercore! Since there seem to be many different types of bios, I'm uploading photos of screenshots to the (limited) options I have on offer. Dual core is enabled. Here's the rest: Funny thing is that even bios seem to want to lag a bit, so it can only be a hardware thing, right?

Thought I smelled Trekkie :D Good to see there are still some of us out there, things seemed to have died down in the past couple of years... Back on topic. Funny you should say that similar problems occur when hardware is about to die...I got rid of the old HDD because what happened was that...

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Thanks kemical! Unfortunately though the Killdisk didn't cut it. The disk isn't the problem then, so its a BIOS thing, but I haven't got a clue what it could be in bios!?! (I restored default settings...twice, just to make sure) One intersting thing happened though when I put in the win7...

I'm still sure it has something to do with BIOS because it was after the update that things went beserk, before it was just all funny, after the update it was completely shot. So it seems to be the point that turned things the way they are. I haven't got a clue where to take it from there...

Of course... Well, I'm currently Zeroing my drive, says there's another 5 hours to go, so I'll get back to you on that tomorrow since that'll be at midnight. I'll run the compatibility as soon as get Windows up and running again.. ... Incidently...I ran the compatibility test on my...

Did that, put the 2GB in the primary slot like, I think it was you, said earlier in the thread. RAM works great, but the CPU is still firing on all cylinders! So,...no real change!

Has anyone got any more ideas? Please