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I'm helping a neighbor who bought a used Pavilion
a200n computer. It didn't have a hard drive or the
HP Recovery CDs, so I got a new Western Digital 80GB
drive and got the Recovery CDs from HP. I put in the
new drive and tested it with the Wester Digital
diagonostic software.
I start running into problems during the recovery
process. The recovery program gives me a few error
messages saying there was an extraction problem
on a file. I also saw the recover problem lock up
during the last step, Finalizing Recovery. I tried
flashing in the newest BIOS for this computer to try
to fix the problems. I was able to get Windows XP
Home to boot, but the system is very unstable. I saw
it reboot during the install of Service Pack 2.
I also ran Memtest86 for 2 hours and 21 passes through
the memory to make sure there wasn't a problem with the
memory module. I know the fan on the processor is working.
Any ideas? Thanks.
I'm helping a neighbor who bought a used Pavilion
a200n computer. It didn't have a hard drive or the
HP Recovery CDs, so I got a new Western Digital 80GB
drive and got the Recovery CDs from HP. I put in the
new drive and tested it with the Wester Digital
diagonostic software.
I start running into problems during the recovery
process. The recovery program gives me a few error
messages saying there was an extraction problem
on a file. I also saw the recover problem lock up
during the last step, Finalizing Recovery. I tried
flashing in the newest BIOS for this computer to try
to fix the problems. I was able to get Windows XP
Home to boot, but the system is very unstable. I saw
it reboot during the install of Service Pack 2.
I also ran Memtest86 for 2 hours and 21 passes through
the memory to make sure there wasn't a problem with the
memory module. I know the fan on the processor is working.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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