HELP! HP DV4 Laptop Constant not responding

[juggalotus]

i did what you said there is no compatible windows 7 software on the website that makes my HDD: fujitsu

Hard Drive Software Utilities : FUJITSU United States

 

[juggalotus]

i downloaded the diagnostic tool for the HDD it passed, im thinking theres nothing wrong with my HDD or Driver

 

[juggalotus]

ive tried everything, this is trash, im gunna have to go back to vista

 

[juggalotus]

**** windows 7 its buggy just like vista, theres no ****ing help on any of the forums from actual microsoft people, were just trying to guess what the problem is , ill never buy another MS product

 

[juggalotus]

google windows 7 not responding

 

[gregrocker]

Did you do the clean install as per the suggestions of all the experts here?

The installer is driver-complete so don't worry about drivers. Just choose Custom from booted DVD, use Drivet Tools to delete all, create new partition(s) and format before installing to first partition.,

I don't understand why you curse Win7 when you had a faulty in-place Upgrade, which is a vastly inferior install to begin with!

Clean Install, dude! Don't curse the darkness.

 

[juggalotus]

dude, sorry for being pissed but i did try the clean install too and that did not work either, actually, after i upgraded from factory restore to 7 ( what im on now) its doing the best out everything i have tried, and by the way is still does this in safe mode, anyway i found a few things number one

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7files/thread/291c0945-c41f-4c8b-bca1-6b6d0836f62a

looks like this is a very common problem

and 2 i found a driver error on the root of my local disk and i found this when i googled it

BlindNero Forums • View topic - Ultimate FIX to msdia80.dll problem: VC++, x64 Vista / W7

the lock ups seems random i just dont know what to do, i have tried clean install. are you tellin me to clean install and dont install ANY thing besides windows drivers and windows update? no hp drivers?

 

[juggalotus]

been workin flawless for an hour dunno what i did but i got my fingers crossed

 

[juggalotus]

nm it froze

 

[juggalotus]

ok ive done the fresh install, only installed neccessary drivers, im going to install things one by one to see whats going on

 

[juggalotus]

i only have 2 programs live messenger and security esentials installed its still doing it wtf

 

[gregrocker]

Did you change out the drivers which the Win7 installer provided? This is not necessary in Win7 as the installer is driver-complete.

You only need to install drivers which are missing in Device Manager after install and first few Windows Updates where more drivers will be delivered.

So, yes, this could be the root of your problem. Changing out drivers is unnecessary in Windows 7 unless there are performance problems which point to specific drivers.

 

[juggalotus]

ok when i have fresh install and only install the windows 7 drivers when its all done i only have 1 missing driver in my device manager, my sd card reader, what should i do ? kuz i have a radeon hd 3200 that needs drivers and a hdmi port on the side of my laptop thats why i need the catalyst control center to switch video settings, im just confused how this os wont go on this laptop, hp sent me the disks, how would they not find out this very obvious problem, also, the hp website tells me to install bios f.4a and the disk when i upgrade from vista to 7 installs bios f.5something ... it seems like the one that came on the disk was working better?
what should i do man im thinking i might just have to go back to vista so all my devices and drivers and programs will work properly

 

[juggalotus]

also windows tried to auto install drivers and failed to install 3 base device drivers??? what does that mean

 

[juggalotus]

then i got this in my event viewer, by the way i flashed back to the bios hp had on the website under my model number

: The embedded controller (EC) did not respond within the specified timeout period. This may indicate that there is an error in the EC hardware or firmware or that the BIOS is accessing the EC incorrectly. You should check with your computer manufacturer for an upgraded BIOS. In some situations, this error may cause the computer to function incorrectly.

 

[vicvic]

make sure you restart after ever driver - only because you are having problems.

once all drivers are installed and machine ( might ) be running ok take a system image.

If you are having problems with a driver go to reliability history. click on the problem- if driver windows will fix it for you. ( we should) click find solution

don't install anything until all drivers are working

run disk clean - get rid of garbage

defrag

take system image then you can return to this image if you have having problems. with the rest of installation.

wish you the best of mr computer god


vic

ps

it can take a couple of days for the system to sit stable on your computer after resysteming a couple of times. So maybe you should resystem, install drivers, take system image, install programs, wait 5 days see how it goes. My hp -( resystem over 10 in about 2 months) this time some software crashed 3 -4 time first use. i just ran disk clean, ccleaner and defrag and WAITED. A couple of days later no problem.

 

[vicvic]

base device driver is your card readers

 

[juggalotus]

well checked the hp site today and there were 5 new driver downloads that wont there yesterdayso i called hp tech support and it seems that i fixed it by changing the virtual memory from 5 gigs to 8 gigs, but i still have the not responding sometimes just very seldom now, they also released an updated ati catalyst control center so changing the virtual memory , resetting internet explorer, reinstalled ati with the new drivers they released today, also they released a
» AMD AHCI Compatible RAID controller
do i need this?

 

[gregrocker]

Are you using AHCI Sata controller setting? Check in BIOS.

If so, you can install it to test performance then roll it back on device Driver tab in Device manager, or using Restore point.

AHCI is preferred setting but not if it isn't already set there - you'd have to convert or reinstall.

 

[juggalotus]

i have no yellow ! in my device manager, i did a registry repair, and my explorer.exe is still locking up! what the hell do i have to do to fix this problem!!! PLEASE HELP !