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COMPAQ PRESARIO SR1803WM
Hopefully someone can help me. I bought this computer from Wal-Mart
about 6 months back and have had nothing but problems. Compaq Presario Model SR1803WM 3.2ghz Celeron Processor 512mb Ram 60Gb Hard drive Cd burner/CdRom No floppy No Windows CD Windows XP included the computer will work fine for about a week, then windows will begin to freeze up. and the only way to unfreeze is to power down, or sometimes unplug the computer. Eventually after having to do this a few times, windows will quit loading up, and it will go to a screen giving you the option to Start Windows normally, Start windows with C prompt, Start windows from last known good configuration, and a couple of other things like that, but no matter which one I choose, windows won't load. I usually then have to re-install windows, with the windows recovery thats comes built in to the computer (since there is no windows disc)...When I run PC Doctor to check the hardware, it will run the hard drive test, then come up with Short Self Test Error:HD521-2W, which I cant find out anything about It will recommend NOT doing a recovery, but I do one anyway (always a destructive recover, thus losing everything on the computer, because a normal repair wont work) Usually when i do the recovery, everything will start working fine again for about a week then everything will start again. This last time, i had to do a recovery, it took several tries before i could get the recovery to work. I think the Hard Drive is going bad, but don't know how to check it, and the computer is only 6 months old anyway. any help is greatly appreciatied.thank you |
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COMPAQ PRESARIO SR1803WM
You need to call support and tell them you're sending it in AND you want a
new recovery CD. I have an SR1850NX and learned that the recovery on the computer had a virus imbedded, so when I made a recovery CD from the computer, the virus came with it. They had to send me an updated Recovery Media CD sans the virus. I come across lock-ups ever so often, but I think it might be due to the Media Center..but I can't prove it. Glenn "wolfman1966" wrote in message ... Hopefully someone can help me. I bought this computer from Wal-Mart about 6 months back and have had nothing but problems. Compaq Presario Model SR1803WM 3.2ghz Celeron Processor 512mb Ram 60Gb Hard drive Cd burner/CdRom No floppy No Windows CD Windows XP included the computer will work fine for about a week, then windows will begin to freeze up. and the only way to unfreeze is to power down, or sometimes unplug the computer. Eventually after having to do this a few times, windows will quit loading up, and it will go to a screen giving you the option to Start Windows normally, Start windows with C prompt, Start windows from last known good configuration, and a couple of other things like that, but no matter which one I choose, windows won't load. I usually then have to re-install windows, with the windows recovery thats comes built in to the computer (since there is no windows disc)...When I run PC Doctor to check the hardware, it will run the hard drive test, then come up with Short Self Test Error:HD521-2W, which I cant find out anything about It will recommend NOT doing a recovery, but I do one anyway (always a destructive recover, thus losing everything on the computer, because a normal repair wont work) Usually when i do the recovery, everything will start working fine again for about a week then everything will start again. This last time, i had to do a recovery, it took several tries before i could get the recovery to work. I think the Hard Drive is going bad, but don't know how to check it, and the computer is only 6 months old anyway. any help is greatly appreciatied.thank you |
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