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2011-01-30 17:01:58
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5974|Vancouver, BC, Canada
So I recently updated my mom's (crappy) HP laptop to Windows 7, but it's being a little bitch.

Whenever it boots into Windows, something in the OS or in the driver makes the Harddrive spin up/down all the time or just not respond except for once every other second.

Before Windows fully loads (at the initial bootup logo) and in safemode it works perfectly fine, but as soon as the OS gains full control of the hardware, it fails. I'd try to open my computer, it loads up half the interface then lags for a second, the HDD light flashes and it loads up a little more, and so on.

I've tried fiddling with the Power settings and the HDD spindown timeouts but that hasn't helped.

The HDD graph in PerfMon literally just spikes up and down every second when it's trying to load something up, everything else works alright, I can move the mouse around the the CPU is hardly taxed, it just stalls as soon as it tries the hard drive.
2011-01-30 17:30:02
alexb
<3
+590|6197|Kentucky, USA

Try flashing the latest BIOS.
2011-01-30 17:50:19
jsnipy
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+3,277|6779|...

in perfmon which counter are you using?
2011-01-30 17:54:00
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5974|Vancouver, BC, Canada

jsnipy wrote:

in perfmon which counter are you using?
I meant resource mon. >.<

In Perfmon I looked at avg queue time and %Disk Utilization but it didn't update often enough to give me a decent result.

In resource mon I was looking at the disk read/write speed graph.


I straight-up uninstalled the driver from safe mode and it worked fine, but as soon as it rebooted, Windows decided to be helpful and reinstall the damn driver after which it lagged again.

So I'm doing a GP edit to make it stop doing so, but I doubt it's a perfect solution.
2011-01-30 17:56:08
alexb
<3
+590|6197|Kentucky, USA

Or you could try reformatting and trying a new install disc...
2011-01-30 17:58:23
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5974|Vancouver, BC, Canada

alexb wrote:

Or you could try reformatting and trying a new install disc...
New install CD/DVD or new HDD?

The hard drive works just fine, it's just the windows driver loading up and doing stupid shit. The generic safemode driver works just fine.
2011-01-30 19:04:23
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5974|Vancouver, BC, Canada
Been ripping my hair out all day over this, it just insists on installing a new driver.

I can't seem to find any BIOS update, but the Harddrive firmware updater on the HP site said it's already up to date.

It's a dv2608ca, halp?
2011-01-30 19:17:59
alexb
<3
+590|6197|Kentucky, USA

Did you install the nForce Chipset drivers?
Also, I was talking about the mobo BIOS... not sure if it will help but its always worth a shot.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/soft … p;sw_lang=

Also, I meant a new install CD/DVD.
2011-01-30 20:50:53
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5974|Vancouver, BC, Canada
Edit: Got the BIOS updated. Still nothing.


I installed the chipset drivers which didn't help.

I'm currently trying to flash the BIOS, but from within safemode it gives me errors when opening the utility, and when I boot into the full version it begins to lag, which kinda makes me fear using it because it seems like there would be a higher risk of corrupting something because it times out.


When I first boot up the system and it's still loading things it works fine, so it seems like it's something that's run while it logs in.... I haven't installed anything but HP drivers, Windows Updates, and Firefox though...

Last edited by TheDonkey (2011-01-30 21:10:01)

2011-01-31 01:39:57
Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6696|King Of The Islands

I had this, turns out the hard drive controller, although perfectly fine on Vista, would fuck up on W7. At the time I suspected my new HDD (7 was warning of imminent failure of the drive), so I warrantied it, but had the same effect on the second.

A new motherboard later I had no problems, though I had come to suspect it was actually eating drives. Recently the second drive died also after about 8 months.

Controller was Intel ICH8.
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2011-01-31 05:44:53
alexb
<3
+590|6197|Kentucky, USA

TheDonkey wrote:

Edit: Got the BIOS updated. Still nothing.


I installed the chipset drivers which didn't help.

I'm currently trying to flash the BIOS, but from within safemode it gives me errors when opening the utility, and when I boot into the full version it begins to lag, which kinda makes me fear using it because it seems like there would be a higher risk of corrupting something because it times out.


When I first boot up the system and it's still loading things it works fine, so it seems like it's something that's run while it logs in.... I haven't installed anything but HP drivers, Windows Updates, and Firefox though...
You could try using the drivers Microsoft update provides... But if Cheezs issue is exactly yours, you're outta luck.
2011-01-31 08:09:07
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5974|Vancouver, BC, Canada

alexb wrote:

TheDonkey wrote:

Edit: Got the BIOS updated. Still nothing.


I installed the chipset drivers which didn't help.

I'm currently trying to flash the BIOS, but from within safemode it gives me errors when opening the utility, and when I boot into the full version it begins to lag, which kinda makes me fear using it because it seems like there would be a higher risk of corrupting something because it times out.


When I first boot up the system and it's still loading things it works fine, so it seems like it's something that's run while it logs in.... I haven't installed anything but HP drivers, Windows Updates, and Firefox though...
You could try using the drivers Microsoft update provides... But if Cheezs issue is exactly yours, you're outta luck.
Windows Update doesn't show any new drivers for it. It seems to already have the file cached because as soon as I boot it up it installs it, and even if I click fast enough there's no Cancel button.

I'm sure there's some sort of hack to pull out whichever driver it uses in safemode and apply it, but I doubt it will by any means be easy to do, so I guess I'm SOL for now.


And sadly, with a laptop it would be nearly impossible to swap out motherboards.

Last edited by TheDonkey (2011-01-31 08:10:29)

 

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