The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

Dropping a hard drive doesn't bother me so much, but the design of laptops are certainly flawed. I realized that when I gripped the thin plastic encasement, and caused the platter to grind. NOT good. Thankfully, mechanical drives in laptops are becoming more and more rare. If they wish to continue employing them, they should definitely make those areas more robust. But if they keep making laptops and notebooks more thin, I don't see how they could do it. Lest they use materials that are tougher, while also thin. Or at least flip the hard drive upside down from its current position!!! That would probably help at least.

 

I've never seen a notebook that was that fragile were handling it caused the HDD to grind. In fact I can squeeze a 2.5" HDD external and it won't grind. But that is my experience. I would also like to get away from mechanical devices too but not for less life and more fragile overall, which is a fact with SSD's

 

No disc in the optical drive. And I gripped the hard drive area

 

That would be a normal usage situation? LOL Never done that one, Yet!

 

This is quite a neat little tool, came across it the other day

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

 

Now that looks very cool, I'll have to play with it. I'm wondering if it gives you control of the security detail as well? Most that play with structural rights and NTFS+ know what a pain it can be sometimes to manage user rights. It would be nice to have a graphical tool like this for that.

I get a kick out of the summary of his tool, he invented? More correct would be created as there have been plenty of tools similar that go way back to a DOS environment. But tit for tat, looks like a nice tool.

 

Yeah, I used to use SequoiaView for that, but at work we've been using TreeSize lately.
That seems to be the quickest way to identify a large number of separate spacehogs.

 

He just says that the concept of Treemap was invented by another person, and gives them credit as the tool utilises it. Not quite such a grand claim!

This is where I came across the tool:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds

Some of the info is basic and n/a to most in this thread no doubt, but I picked up a few bits I hadn't heard of before (mainly a couple of the regedits for "speed" related tweaks).

 

I believe Treemaps have been around for a while. Not the first time I've seen a drive tool like that. Very interesting insight into how drives are structured. Makes it a snap to see what's what

 

Wanted to run something by anyone that sees it.

Laptop battery was on the way out (failed a diagnostic after I noticed charge was lacking), so I bought a cheapo replacement against my better judgement.

More recently, but not immediately after I started using it, I've experienced a few CPU lockups with no reasonable cause process wise. Since the change in battery, I've also finally got round to switching out my HDD for an SSD, so I know it is not the Windows install or the HDD.

I've been running on AC power for ~6 hours solidly now with no lockups, which is longer than it would usually go with the battery hooked up. I am assuming the battery is dodgy and bad power supply through it is causing the lockups, which I had assumed even before I had reason to change out the HDD. Obviously not using it until I get an OEM replacement in.

Agree?

 

A fairly sound diagnosis I think, especially if you've changed the drive to no avail.

 

Old drive is fine (now in an enclosure), I changed it out just for the SSD, so I'm thinking so.

HP laptop batteries are hilariously expensive, if I can find one that is!

 

If it runs on wall power that only leaves the regulators used for charging or the battery, so I think you've covered all bases. You can get your old battery rebuild with new cells or you could even rebuild it yourself if you feel so inclined.

 

Old HP battery runs laptop fine, just obviously doesn't hold much of a charge (hence replacing it), so must be the battery not the regulators/connecting pins.

Hadn't considered rebuilding it but I'm not sure I have the tools nor the inclination.

 

Batteries are relatively cheap. Do a Google on your battery, and I think that is true.

 

Numbers sound about right for mine too. I'm going to RMA the replacement and see how I get on.

 

No problems since RMA. Good news.

 

hi guys finally update my PC per my sig haven't OC(ed) it yet and at this point don't see any need to do so..I was able to encode DJango with DVD Rebuilder Pro in 12 mins so pretty good times like the setup so far..not really gaming much so I didn't go with a brand new Videocard...thanks for all the help guys and your PMs Russ even though it ended up being something different than we talked about...if you guys want to rip it apart feel free lol...OS is Windows 7 64 bit