laptop issues can use any advice

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Bman123

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alright well here it goes. A buddy of mine has a hp laptop with windows vista and a intel centrino cpu with 3gb of ddr2 ram. Said it keeps blue screening and rebooting so he brought it overbfor me to mess with.

Turned it on loaded windows and all desktop icons and i got a bsod saying memory management. So i open it up to check the ram. I 1gb stick and 1 2gb stick of mis matched brands but the same speed and voltage so i took out the 1gb stick and left in the 2gb stick.

Restarted loaded windowd and got a irql is missing error on the bsod. It restarted loaded windows again and got a bsod saying reference pointer and it rebooted quick i couldnt see the rest of it.

Got back to the desktop and it just kept popping up with box after box of stuff not responding and it locked up no bsod. What do you think this could be?

Honestly i hope its a virus. He got a win 7 disc from newegg and i have it here but he wants to rip all the pics, music off the laptop but i cant get it to run long enought to stick a flash drive in it to rip anything off of it.

Im a little lost as i dont do jack woth laptops at all. I dont know if its a actual hardware issue or not. I would like to just get the stuff off of it and throw linux on it real quick to make sure its not hardware related before i attempt to use the windows 7 disc he bought.
 
Laptop sata power and data are the same connectors used for desktops.

Just pop the laptop drive in your desktop and start backing stuff up.
 
Ive never worked on a laptop where I had to actually open it up. I was trying to avoid it if possible but it looks like shes gonna go in my desktop.
 
i cant hook it up to my pc without some sort of adapter i am guessing
 
its pins like a ide not a plug like desktop sata. i am trying it now with just the other stick of ram
 
Is it in an adapter or something? It look like it's a standard sata drive.
 
no the end of the hard drive looks like pins. In order to put the hard drive in you have to slide it down so the pins go into these grooves that are built into the laptop. I havent seen anything like this before LOL I really appreciate the help
 
The drive you linked is standard SATA, I have no idea what you are dealing with. What is the laptop model.
 
hp dv6700 is the model of the laptop
i took out the 2gb stick of ram and it is running now. I am hooking it up to my internet to see maybe i can get it to run long enough so i can run a anti virus on it and catch something
 
Yeah the 2gb stick seems like its bad too me. I wanted to try to run it with the 2gb instead of the 1gb stick but every time I did it would BSOD on me and throw out a bunch of different errors. I mean every time it would BSOD on me with the 2gb stick it would be a different error each time. I knew something was up when I saw a memory management error on the BSOD

So I had to just put in the 1gb stick and everything worked. The pc ran slow as hell with vista on it using a 1gb stick but I expected that already. The 1gb stick got me to get the pictures I needed off of it tho.
 
im installing windows 7 on it right now. Gonna see how well it does with 1 gb ram, a 5,400 rpm hard drive and a older t5500 centrino cpu. Fingers crossed hahahahaha
 
T5500 isn't really slow. 1GB RAM isn't ideal, but even DDR2 isn't that expensive these days.
 
yeah so far it is running pretty good. I got fire fox installed, malware bytes, avg installed also. This laptop is pretty nice I am surprised how well it is running. I will tell him to go out and get at least 1 2gb stick of ram tomorrow
 
MSE surprisingly has been one of the better Anti-virus programs I've had installed, it's caught more attempts at installing spyware/viruses than AVG or Spybot.
 
yeah i put MSE on it, malware bytes and ccleaner. He came to get it today and brought a new 2gb stick of ddr2 with him so i threw it in there real fast and its zooming along with 3gb of ram. He was gonna sell it for $100 and buy a new laptop but i talked him out of it.

I told him just buy windows 7 and a 2gb stick of ram and you will be happy with the laptop and not have to spend $500 on a new one. They dont do anything intensive at all just web browse so i felt a new laptop would be a waste of cash.

So $135 for windows 7 and ram and now he is a happy camper. He gave me $40 cash for doing everything for him, i told him i didnt need any money but he is almost twice my size and wouldnt take no for a answer lol so i tool the money lol...
 
he went out and bought another windows 7 disc today and dropped off his old desktop with a 64 x2 athlon 5000+ in it and told me to fix it when i get time so i am about to start working on that now. Hes a good friend and always looks out for me when i need cash and lets me landscape with him when times are rough for me so i dont mind staying up late and returning the favor for him. Its show time
 
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