- Jan 15, 2014
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Hello,
My dad bought a new laptop because his old 1 has some strange problems.
Now I've received the old one and tried to fix it without success.
The problems:
When the pc boots, it's always on the 'bad monitor', meaning I have to change the source with fn+f5 everytime it boots. Else I cannot see the bios boot screen. So this has nothing to do with the windows that is installed on the pc. I'm thinking of installing a linux also, maybe the second problem is resolved also by it.
So the second problem is that when the pc is on, and for example I have µTorrent and Windows explorer open and then I open Chrome, the pc just restarts without a bsod or anything else. Also when nothing is open and I plugin my harddrive and open it in Windows Explorer, this restart happens after some seconds. I have no idea what is really causing these resets.
But when I leave the laptop on for hours with just µTorrent, it never resets. The harddrive works on my desktop pc perfectly, so it aint the harddrive either.
Things I've already tried:
- Install Windows 8.1 Ultimate instead of the default Windows 7 Home that was installed before. The problems were already there with the W7.
- Realtemp shows 50° when the pc resets, so it aint the temperature either.
- Opened the laptop up and cleaned the ventilator and heatsink
Haven't found anything to try for the first problem yet.
The current specs:
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit
CPU
Intel Pentium SU4100 @ 1.30GHz 32 °C
Penryn 45nm Technology
RAM
2,00GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (6-6-6-18)
Motherboard
MEDION S561X (CPU 1) 37 °C
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1) (MSI)
Storage
465GB Seagate ST9500325AS (SATA) 26 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
High Definition Audio Device
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit
Thanks in advance for anything I could test/try or any solution for the problems.
Cheers,
Devil
My dad bought a new laptop because his old 1 has some strange problems.
Now I've received the old one and tried to fix it without success.
The problems:
When the pc boots, it's always on the 'bad monitor', meaning I have to change the source with fn+f5 everytime it boots. Else I cannot see the bios boot screen. So this has nothing to do with the windows that is installed on the pc. I'm thinking of installing a linux also, maybe the second problem is resolved also by it.
So the second problem is that when the pc is on, and for example I have µTorrent and Windows explorer open and then I open Chrome, the pc just restarts without a bsod or anything else. Also when nothing is open and I plugin my harddrive and open it in Windows Explorer, this restart happens after some seconds. I have no idea what is really causing these resets.
But when I leave the laptop on for hours with just µTorrent, it never resets. The harddrive works on my desktop pc perfectly, so it aint the harddrive either.
Things I've already tried:
- Install Windows 8.1 Ultimate instead of the default Windows 7 Home that was installed before. The problems were already there with the W7.
- Realtemp shows 50° when the pc resets, so it aint the temperature either.
- Opened the laptop up and cleaned the ventilator and heatsink
Haven't found anything to try for the first problem yet.
The current specs:
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit
CPU
Intel Pentium SU4100 @ 1.30GHz 32 °C
Penryn 45nm Technology
RAM
2,00GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (6-6-6-18)
Motherboard
MEDION S561X (CPU 1) 37 °C
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1) (MSI)
Storage
465GB Seagate ST9500325AS (SATA) 26 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
High Definition Audio Device
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit
Thanks in advance for anything I could test/try or any solution for the problems.
Cheers,
Devil
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