About six months ago, my hard drive was beginning to fail. So, I replaced it with a brand new one. Then, my video chip failed on my Dell Latitude D630. I replaced the motherboard with a brand new one. I am somewhat familiar with hardware installation so I am pretty confident everything was installed correctly.
I reinstalled the operating system and installed the drivers according to dell's requested operations. Everything worked fine, then I would go to boot it up and the power light would come on for about a second or two and then I would hear the hard drive click off. So, after doing some research I took out all of the hardware components and ran a diagnostic startup and slowly put each piece back in. Started up like nothing happened. It works for a few days then it will randomly lock up. The only way i can tell is by physically switching my wireless switch on and off to see if the light stays on.
I go to reboot and now it gets locked up in the bios; sometimes in the beginning sometimes in the middle and sometimes in the end. So, i repeat my steps above and eventually it works without any problem.
I figured it could be a bad memory module so I purchased a brand new 2GB kingston DDR2. Everything worked just fine. A little while later computer freezes and i have the hard drive issue again (turns off shortly after power light comes on).
Is there anyway I can find out what is causing my computer to lock up? Each time i have been doing something differently. I have reinstalled drivers, hardware components, etc. I am at a complete loss. Dell basically told me i have done everything i can do and just need to continue with trial and error.
I reinstalled the operating system and installed the drivers according to dell's requested operations. Everything worked fine, then I would go to boot it up and the power light would come on for about a second or two and then I would hear the hard drive click off. So, after doing some research I took out all of the hardware components and ran a diagnostic startup and slowly put each piece back in. Started up like nothing happened. It works for a few days then it will randomly lock up. The only way i can tell is by physically switching my wireless switch on and off to see if the light stays on.
I go to reboot and now it gets locked up in the bios; sometimes in the beginning sometimes in the middle and sometimes in the end. So, i repeat my steps above and eventually it works without any problem.
I figured it could be a bad memory module so I purchased a brand new 2GB kingston DDR2. Everything worked just fine. A little while later computer freezes and i have the hard drive issue again (turns off shortly after power light comes on).
Is there anyway I can find out what is causing my computer to lock up? Each time i have been doing something differently. I have reinstalled drivers, hardware components, etc. I am at a complete loss. Dell basically told me i have done everything i can do and just need to continue with trial and error.
