I have here a HP Pavilion dv6000...
first and foremost from most of the research I have conducted I see that they are notorious for overheating and such. I came across a link to update the BIOS and I guess it is suppose to tell the fans to run more... BIOS update here .... I was wondering if anyone would take a look at this as I have never updated a BIOS and am a bit fearful of messing something up. Does this seem legitimate?
And the other thing...
I suppose the overheating is causing this. The RAM to having VISTA ratio is pretty bad on this persons computer. So, I was(am) going to install XP so that the resources won't be so bogged down all the time. the only reason she uses it is ebay anyway. Regardless ... when I goto the setup on bootup for XP it says that it cannot install XP because the hard drive cannot be found or read. (this disc works on all other tested computers (3) to be double sure ) So, I do a HDD test in BIOS and it says to replace hard disc. From research replacing the HDD has worked for people. So, I go a buy a new HDD for her and put it in... nothing changes. The XP install won't continue because it says the HDD cannot be read. Now, on the original vista still loads. In fact you can spend a considerable amount of time (maybe 1 hour) before the HDD/screen freezes up. Which this seems like a bad sector or something some kind of virus or something of that nature. Yet - as I said putting a new HDD isn't working. So, I am about to attempt to install XP on the new disc from another external computer and then put it in the laptop to see if it'll load. Other than that I am at a stand still... could I please get some help. Thank you so much in advance