Dell Inspiron 1525 freezing

wellhellothere

wellhellothere

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Hi guys

Quick question;

I've got an Inspiron 1525 i'm looking at for someone. It had a 32bit Vista on it, before the hard drive failed. I replaced the hard drive and installed Win7 64 bit.

Its been running absolutely fine for about 3 months, but has since started freezing within about 20 seconds of use.

I've ran checkdisk (the win7 built in chkdsk and a third party one) and found and repaired 1 bad sector on the HDD. There aren't any more bad sectors anymore. No errors on the RAM either...

Any idea whats causing these freezes? Nothing in the event logs to help either... which suggests a hardware fault.

Any help is appreciated!


Thanks

(edit: Do you think switching to ATA in the Bios might sort the issue?)
 
If you switch from ahci to ata then you won't be able to boot into windows without reinstalling it. Bad sectors don't go away, they just get marked as bad and they don't get used. I would start disabling programs from running at bootup and see what happens. Have you scanned for malware using malwarebytes? What about using Ccleaner?
 
Hi John, helpful as ever!

I've done a full malwarebytes scan, nothing malicious on there. The machine just showed; no internal hard drive found, reseat the hard drive to resolve this issue.

Is it as obvious as that do you think? Surely if the HDD was loose, it wouldn't be freezing in the OS, but blue screening?

Thanks again
 
I'm always tring to be helpful. I don't know how to be anything but... :)

What brand of hard drive is it? I would download and run that drive manufacturers disk diagnostic utility to test the drive.
 
Ran some more diagnostics on hard drive, no problems whatsoever. The machine now doesn't boot at all, hangs on the Windows 7 boot screen for about 2 mins, then a flash of a blue screen and restarts!

I've written it off now, i've been looking at it for the past 6 months on and off, since someone slammed the lid down and broke the old hard drive!!!

I assume there is a problem with the main board of one of the other components, anyway, they're getting a new one so its no biggie.

Thanks for the help
 
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