So after all my whining about Dell laptops sucking and painting apocalyptic imagery of failing hard disks on those things,, the hard disk on my laptop seems to have problems. BIOS self-test as well as Seagate’s own SeaTools confirm it. First saw this as a set of failed writes in Linux. Mid-term tomorrow, so no time for extended diagnosis (umm…why are you posting to your blog then?). Further diagnosis and screaming at HP in the days to come. Oh joy.
Academic update at a later date.
“Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain. All the children are insane.”
One questions the sanity of the one who sang this, one who listens, and one who empathizes. :)
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I guess you should stop throwing around your laptop … ;)
too much gentoo, messed it I guess. use windows!
gentoo sucks
like monkey balls
hehe…waiting for fox2mike to retort :)
Oh, we’ve got that conversation down. All it needs is just details.
I know them both — neighbours. They have been … taken care of.
LOL!!!
Dude. You just made me flunk in my test. That stuff is a riot.
My Dell laptop crashed on me last week. The hard disk is gone :(
This is how laptop manufacturers work — it’s disproportionately expensive to sell reliable hardware, so they play the probability game. To boot, they charge you for it, in terms of warranty. I spoke to HP customer care online and they told me I have to purchase a new HDD. And my laptop’s under warranty till somewhere in 2009. :D What a bunch of idiots. Will call them up tomorrow and see how it goes.
Ah well. Typical that it should fail one day before terms :)
SEV
i bought a dell lappy after a lot of contemplation (cos the price/feature/performance just tilted my choice to it) – and it works well. Its just a month, and it actually too early to say anything about its reliability. But a friend of mine bought a HP machine (the dv 200* series, quite similar to yours i guess) and he is cribbing about really slow disk seeks. Not sure whats wrong – hes a windows user btw.
Crud. That’s bad. Ask him to run the diagnostic in the BIOS.