- Mar 15, 2012
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I have been having a confusing issue with my laptop and although I've been told it is my hard drive breathing its last breath, I have my doubts.
My laptop is the Samsung NP-QX410-J01. The specs are as follows:
Processor Name Intel Core i5-480M
Processor Speed 2.67 GHz
Graphics Card Intel GMA HD
NVIDIA GeForce 310M (Hybrid) Graphics Processor
512MB Graphic Memory
4GB DDR3 System Memory
640GB Hard Drive Capacity
The symptoms are:
Occasionally when I turn the computer on, as it boots, I get the "operating system not found" error, I then turn it off and turn it back on and it boots fine as if nothing happened. This is where I wonder about the hard drive.
When booted:
I cannot play any games at all that uses any real graphic processing (BF2.. etc..) no matter how low the settings are placed. The game just crashes.
Using MS Office, I get super low res icons and a VERY Windows 2000 like UI.
I cannot use any of my Adobe Suite obviously.
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I ran tests on my hard drive and it passed all of them perfectly fine.. Even an intensive 2 hr test. I don't (as far as my antivirus tells me) have any malware on my pc using multiple types of scanning methods and software (Malwarebytes, MS Security Essentials).
I dunno what is going on with it. This started while I was playing BF2. I probably shouldn't have been treating this laptop like a gaming laptop but I didn't figure an older game would have this kind of results to it.
ANY help would be beneficial. I know a little bit of stuff but I may need to ask questions, depending on the advice.
Thank you very much!
My laptop is the Samsung NP-QX410-J01. The specs are as follows:
Processor Name Intel Core i5-480M
Processor Speed 2.67 GHz
Graphics Card Intel GMA HD
NVIDIA GeForce 310M (Hybrid) Graphics Processor
512MB Graphic Memory
4GB DDR3 System Memory
640GB Hard Drive Capacity
The symptoms are:
Occasionally when I turn the computer on, as it boots, I get the "operating system not found" error, I then turn it off and turn it back on and it boots fine as if nothing happened. This is where I wonder about the hard drive.
When booted:
I cannot play any games at all that uses any real graphic processing (BF2.. etc..) no matter how low the settings are placed. The game just crashes.
Using MS Office, I get super low res icons and a VERY Windows 2000 like UI.
I cannot use any of my Adobe Suite obviously.
---
I ran tests on my hard drive and it passed all of them perfectly fine.. Even an intensive 2 hr test. I don't (as far as my antivirus tells me) have any malware on my pc using multiple types of scanning methods and software (Malwarebytes, MS Security Essentials).
I dunno what is going on with it. This started while I was playing BF2. I probably shouldn't have been treating this laptop like a gaming laptop but I didn't figure an older game would have this kind of results to it.
ANY help would be beneficial. I know a little bit of stuff but I may need to ask questions, depending on the advice.
Thank you very much!
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