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Very strange. Obviously hardware is recognised OK, as it allows disc to be formated and files copied to it. There are problems with writing boot sector. But HP doesn't have any protection in BIOS, or does it?

I had some problems with my Samsung at first. After it has been checked in bios (option check disk), everything was OK.

Try making a smaller partition.

About question 1) Just follow the steps from Mr. Cin - update manually.
You could also try with HP drivers for nc4000 and install drivers for Radeon mobility 9000 - it is the same card as ours.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=395732&prodNameId=395734&swEnvOID=1093&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=PSG_I23133-108006
This is the link for SP31674.

I am just trying WD Scrorpio Blue 320GB PATA. No success so far. Cannot figure it out.

My previous installation with Hitachi 160 GB (two years ago) was a charm so I expected no evil.

Wrong.

So far I keep cycling between "loading files" and rebooting endlessly. No options out...keep giving me choice to format (which I did, no problem), choosing partition and installing OS ....and after "loading files" it informs me everything is OK and would continue after reboot. Wrong. After reboot it either asks for "strike any key" and do the same again...or announces to me "cd reading error" if I do not press the keyboard with vicious cycle repeating.

I already read several treads but no help so far. Slipstreaming to integrate sp2 and create bootable xp sp2 cd was useless. (I had sp1 integrated already and sp1 is all it takes to recognize larger than 136GB drives).

The safest will be to return the hdd before time runs out.

Better suggestions? Is there "block in bios" or some other trickery???

Any suggestion greatly appreciated.

Ok here are my issues with W7 now.

1)  Trying to manually update the drivers using the Asus one from Mr Cin does not work, however I am able to manually update using the (older) compaq drivers.  I now have the native resolution but with the sleep/hibernate issues.  Since then, I have tried further updating to the Asus, but windows is telling me I already have the most up to date.  Is there a way to get this installed?

2)  I also noticed that the old intel chipset drivers do not work in windows 7.  I tried downloading a newer set but that doesn't work either.  Are you guys even installing a chipset driver?

3)  I believe since no chipset drivers were installed, I have a unknown device.  The location is "Intel 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller - 24CC".  Anyone know what this is and how to fix?

Does anyone get spontaneous reboot problems? I've installed W7 Ultimate on nx7010 with ATI driver for XP. Everything works great apart from occasional reboot, especially if laptop is left alone for couple of hours. The Event Log states: "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000008e".

I wonder if this could be related to one of the two following things:
1. Video card driver
2. RAM - Originally there were 2x256 MB, but I took one of them out and added 1x1 GB (total: 1x256MB + 1x1GB). However, Microsoft Memory Diagnostics didn't find any problem with RAM.

Anyone with simmilar experience?

Quote from: alden on November 19, 2009, 06:10:56 PM
same thing.  Just upgraded to Centrino 2.0Ghz.  Hard drive stops working as soon as starts load Windows.
F10 button works at the beginning.  Access to BIOS ok, checking the hard drive and it can not access.
H Drive was working OK before the upgrade.

I've had almost a week to figure out the problem.
It is HP's ACPI system which screws customers up.
Like anything else HP does.
If the problem occurs, say goodbye to your files on a hard drive unless those were backed.  Insert Windows operating system CD and press F7 when the system asks you if you want to press F6.
The system interrupts you with blue screen showing various ACPI codes.  You have repeat it few times. Until the installation starts.
Even when installation starts it may interrupt with ACPI errors again.  Keep reinstalling it. You will finally reinstall operating system.
Never ever buy anything of HP again.
Poor BIOS, lousy service, cheap products.

Hi Mr Cin!
Good to see someone still using this machines (my nx7010 is still running good enough to keep me from buying new notebook!).
Great find - these Asus drivers, but I think they are the same as Omega 5.6 or SP that I mentioned in 3rd post.

Nice work with this walkthrough - it is basically the same as my few lines. But it has been described before for Vista, so I didn't bother to do it again. Sorry if it was misleading in any way.

I would reply before, but someone banned me from internet...

Have a nice day

I guess You should check any connection that could be loosed when notebook was opened.

But it could be anything really.

the follow-up:

if I can access to my BIOS (no further than that) and it shows all specs of the Computer, CPU, the RAM amount, Video memory, etc will it show the non-working CPU?

I hope that someone is still alive on a forum and is still using X1000's.
I've upgraded 1.7ghz CPU to 2.0ghz processor and the computer wont restart.  BIOS is accessible, HD is no responsive.  Starts to load Windows and the system is locking up before picture W-XP shows up.
The same thing about re-installation of the operating system.  Just locks up.  HD stops working.
BIOS I was running is F.34.
I've tried to put back my 1.7Ghz CPU but it did the same thing.
Is there a problem with the voltage?