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  1. hafwit

    I COMPRESSED MY HP HDRIVE - PROBLEMS OCCURING

    Ed is correct (I work for HP). The Recovery CD will work fine so long as the drive is clean. I would fdisk the drive to be certain, then load the Recovery CD. Run a recovery only, as the fdisk will do a better job formatting the drive than the CD anyway. If, for any reason, the CD will not work...
  2. hafwit

    K7V will not fire up

    You may well have done this, but remove your RAM and snap it back into its slots securely. As Karl may be thinking, I am tempted to think the power supply is fault. Do you have an alternate you could test on the machine? I'm in trouble with the union - they caught me working. ;-)
  3. hafwit

    HP LAPTOP

    You could also try OmniBook Tech Support 970-635-1000 open 24/7 The gene pool could use a little chlorine..... ;-)
  4. hafwit

    Problems with playing movies om my pc.

    First - are we talking about DVDs, or m-peg or .avi files? Second, which operating system are you running? Third - Where did you get the movies from? One option would be to download and run the file ASPICHK.exe from the following site: www.adaptec.com. You may also need to optimize your...
  5. hafwit

    Windows hangs.

    The shutdown issue has been recognized by Microsoft and a patch is available for download to fix it. Your machine has a setting called Fast shutdown, which is turned off by default - thank you Microsoft. This patch enables that software...
  6. hafwit

    TO REPAIR HARD DRIVES?

    Quantum has a utility called QDPS on its site (www.quantum.com) which does an excellent job of diagnosing hard drive errors. If the HD fails this test, it needs replacing. If it passes, download the Zero Fill program from the same site. It will wipe out any partitions - takes about 20 minutes...

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