My old HP laptop's cooling fan died and I decided to get it repaired by a local repair person because HP was asking too much money. The guy replaced the fan all right, but screwed up the entire computer, the touchpad stopped working, the headphones jack stopped working, the accelerometer for auto-head parking in case of sudden motion-stopped working, and even the HDD activity indicator won't light up. I gave it back to him and he managed to fix all these problems free of charge. But ever since, the computer locks up/ slows down randomly, and the HDD indicator stays up, for like a second or so, and it would work again. This cycle keeps repeating. I re-installed windows but the problem is not solved. Checked HDSentinel, and I have increasing values for "188 command time out" in smart (was zero just a few days back, is 16 now). Also a very high value for "Power off retract cycle count". The HDD has a power-on time of 14959 hours-so it's pretty old. It has 41 re-allocated sectors too. The repair guy keeps telling me that the HDD needs to be replaced. But HDSentinel tells me that command time-outs are caused by bad power supply/data cable. Do you think replacing the HDD will solve this problem? Or has the repair guy screwed up some connections inside the laptop? I have had these reallocated sectors earlier too (had 39, now it's 41), but have never had performance problems & system slowdowns before he replaced the fan. What shall I do? Thanks..
PS:Would it help if I post the entire HDSentinel SMART report page?
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro RAM: 8 GB, HDD: about 50 GB free on C:\, Processor: 2nd generation core i3.
I ran a full SMART Extended SelfTest, using HDSentinel, and it PASSED without errors.
PS:Would it help if I post the entire HDSentinel SMART report page?
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro RAM: 8 GB, HDD: about 50 GB free on C:\, Processor: 2nd generation core i3.
I ran a full SMART Extended SelfTest, using HDSentinel, and it PASSED without errors.