I have an old HP ZE1250 - Athlon 1800+ with 512mb ram
I have stopped using it for over an year, but would like to put it into some use if im able to make it a bit reliable.
Problem -
1.
When I switch on the notebook it shutsdown in middle of bootup process. Sometimes right after bios check or while windows is booting. I can hear the HDD screeching to a halt and display goes off. But I can open the cd drive and sometimes the drive (optical) will be spinning.
If I keep the notebook in this state for 10-15minutes, switch it off and power it on again, it starts up as if everything is fine.
2.
And one more thing is, quite a few times the hdd slows to a snails pace. It takes 20+ minutes to boot up and will be too slow to do anything. other times it works just fine.
My tries at fixing this -
Initially I thought that the HDD(Hitachi travelstar 30gb 4200rpm) was bad and also got a new WD disk. But I have the same set of problems with the new disk too.
I guess that the problem might be with the IDE part of mobo but not sure.
Any suggestions on what I could do with it would be helpful. I dont want to spend too much on a 6+ year old notebook but am ok with anything else as I dont have anything to loose.
TIA
I have stopped using it for over an year, but would like to put it into some use if im able to make it a bit reliable.
Problem -
1.
When I switch on the notebook it shutsdown in middle of bootup process. Sometimes right after bios check or while windows is booting. I can hear the HDD screeching to a halt and display goes off. But I can open the cd drive and sometimes the drive (optical) will be spinning.
If I keep the notebook in this state for 10-15minutes, switch it off and power it on again, it starts up as if everything is fine.
2.
And one more thing is, quite a few times the hdd slows to a snails pace. It takes 20+ minutes to boot up and will be too slow to do anything. other times it works just fine.
My tries at fixing this -
Initially I thought that the HDD(Hitachi travelstar 30gb 4200rpm) was bad and also got a new WD disk. But I have the same set of problems with the new disk too.
I guess that the problem might be with the IDE part of mobo but not sure.
Any suggestions on what I could do with it would be helpful. I dont want to spend too much on a 6+ year old notebook but am ok with anything else as I dont have anything to loose.
TIA
