Recent content by TheDonkey

I tried updating the BIOS and ensuring I have the right drivers, but still nothing. Didn't really see anything on that page relevant to harddrive problems.

It's 32 bit, and I'm installing the Vista drivers on 7, none of which have complained or anything. It was a full clean install on a newly-formatted partition. I didn't run the adviser, but I don't see how there should be anything wrong anywhere, especially since it CAN support it, just forces...

It's an HP dv2608ca laptop, not too old, and it was intended to run Vista. I've tried flashing the bios and installing all the drivers that are available. Is there any way to remove the driver from 7's cache so it stops updating? Because it works perfectly fine in safemode, and if I uninstall...

So I recently reformatted one of my (oldish) HP laptops with Windows 7, and the hard drive is not happy with the driver that it's using. Once the system loads up, the hard-drive keeps lagging to read. It would read for a second, then stop for a second, read, stop, read stop. It's not the...