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[T-dot]

still havin problems with torrents.

it wont go continuosly without crashing the cpu (internet down, then need to hold down the power button, for it to reboot). ive been pausing the torrent every 10 minutes, so it doesnt crash. but, when the torrent finishes, the cpu crashes anyways.

did a hard drive diagnostics and "The read test element failed" message came up.

whats it mean?

hardrive or overheating issue?

laptop is 3 years old compaq/hp.

[denverdeath]

Hey. I'm using Bit Tornado, downloading from wherever, and have limited problems. Most freezes I experience(somewhat rare these days), I blame on the crappy Microsoft operating system which I'm using at the time(and I'm probably right). If you haven't formatted in 3 years, you might want to consider doing so to get things working nicely again. At least, do a defrag and clean up. Maybe give CCleaner and EMCO a run to see if they can clean up some obvious problems. One time I was having continual problems, I found out it was the video card software installation...I blame that on the folks who built this computer...I re-installed everything myself and the computer has been humming fairly nicely since then.

This may be of interest:

http://www.mcse.ms/archive58-2004-1-340615.html

[Giant]

Sounds like bad sectors on the drive. Replace it ASAP.

[T-dot]

if i replace the drive; is it possible to just copy the drive onto the new one?

Ive got games I no longer have cd's or cd's key for.

whats a new notebook drive going for? local A'S told me about 170,000 for a 60gb.

[Wrench]