Windows Driven to drink (laptop malfunction with Win 7)

ok i posted here a few weeks ago with boot problem on my laptop..celeron 900 500 gig h/d 3 gig of ram...running windows 7...i put a fresh copy of windows7 on it a few weeks ago as it was giving me problems booting and when it did boot it would freeze with the circle spinning(used to be eggtimer on older versions of windows)...done a defrag ..ran avg ..but problem still there..its really unusable...will i just buy a new one or is it something simple ..???

 

run ....

memtest
seatools for dos

see if it passes these

 

I would be casting my technical eye over the HDD first, personally.

 

used diskeeper on hard drive and its coming up fine

 

Guys its as if something is draining the resources...it freezes for a few seconds then off it goes again and then it freezes again....i have checked a hundred times and nothing is running ..

 

thats a defrag utility ?

seatools is hardware diagnostic utility to test for hardrive errors and bad sectors

 

ok thanks

 

just ran seatools and hard drive failed on long and short tests...thanks guys

 

Ah! The culprit is found! As I suspected...

*places pipe to his mouth while twirling his moustache*

 

I appreciate you may have already diagnosed this one but if you have done a full re-install of Windows 7, it will be necessary to install all the relevant motherboard drivers again.

Things like chipset drivers, NB/SB SM Bus drivers, network cards etc etc - Also checking for a bios update.

You may have already done this, but thought it would be worth pointing out if not, because if you get a new hard drive you will need to install W7 on it anyways, and therefore will need to find all the drivers.

Go to your manufacturers website and go the download pages in support. You should be able to find what you need.

 

new HDD time

samsung F3 500GB would be a good replacement