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    HP s7700n

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by H.A.L. 9000, Feb 6, 2010.

  1. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    I know that the s7700n is a desktop but to me, it's more a desktop with notebook internals. But anyways, on to my point. Recently, my father bought a new Sony F-series notebook as a replacement for the mentioned HP s7700n slimline. So, for the past couple of years, I've been hearing him mentioning here and there that the computer will just go blank on him, while in the middle of something... So, I've looked at it several times, and every time that I would go over and look at it for him, it would work flawlessly. But now that he has given it to me to do what I will with it... I've really come to know what he was talking about.

    First of all the s7700n is based on the NVIDIA n430 chipset, also called MCP51. It has 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+. While I know the 3800+ is a weak processor in terms of performance, it still shouldn't just randomly BSOD ALL THE FRICKIN TIME. First thing I did after having this happen to me about 3 times, is get me a key from MSDN for Windows 7 Professional x64. It came with Vista Home Premium 32-bit(?!?). Well, with the latest chipset drivers from NVIDIA, and all the other drivers being updated, it STILL BSOD's! I cannot for the life of me figure out what is causing this. None of the HW is reporting anything out of the ordinary, and I've tried 2 different sticks of RAM. I'm open to any and all suggestions! Thanks in advance!
     
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    So the problem is the BSOD? What's the code? And what is the lettering? Eg: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE, or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, etc.
     
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  3. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and I think that's for a driver illegally trying to access memory, or something like that.
     
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    Well, I've seen that code before, and it's possible that it's a RAM error, so I'd run memtest86 if possible.
     
    Amnesiac, Feb 7, 2010
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    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    See, I ran that with the OEM RAM and nothing. I also ran it with 2 new Samsung DIMM's and still nothing. I just don't get it. Do you think it could have something to do with the integrated NVIDIA 6150, because I know it dynamically allocates system RAM for graphics use?
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Feb 7, 2010
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    Padmé, Feb 7, 2010
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