Hard Disk Controller

[Taffy Apple]

Hi guys

I was looking at a friends laptop, its a Compaq Presario 2114EA, which has recently for no apparent reason been shutting down to 'prevent damage to the system.' When it boots back up it says its recovered from a serious error.

Now I've not actually seen the shutdown happen, but event viewer mentioned something about a harddrive controller error. In addition, harddisk sentinel says the disk is 100% OK, but there was some king of error and perhaps I should try a short data cable.

However its a laptop, which I guess means it plugs stright into the mobo.

When I first looked at it, IE7 would open and close right away - so I reinstalled and the problem went away. But literally 2 days later I looked again and it was doing the same thing again.

Firstly, are controllers built onto laptop harddrives?

Secondly, what are your opinions on this?

 

[Taffy Apple]

Anyone?

 

[longblock454]

Laptop controllers are not replaceable. The last laptop I worked on had ALL the cooling vents completely plugged with cat hair, gave all kinds of weird errors as various parts overheated.

Solution: Shoot your cat!