justin2009
New Member
Hi,
I bought an HP Pavillion s3123w (slimline) computer with Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. 9 months later, the hard drive is clicking and when it clicked, it froze the computer for several minutes. All indications point to bad hard drive.
Called HP and they sent me a new hard drive and recovery disk set to use on the new hard drive (wouldn't just send a Windows Vista disk and one wasn't included with the computer).
Anyways, swap out the old hard drive for the new one and proceed to recover/install windows onto the new hard drive. Disk 1 went just fine and disk 2 ran for 20 hours before I finally called HP back. They cannot tell me what's wrong with the install, however, I'm able to get onto the internet and register here and type this as we speak, so potantially, it's an HP software problem and not a Windows problem (my guess, anyways)...
There is a progress bar stuck on the desktop apparently trying to install some nvidia driver. It was and still is at 26%. I've rebooted and the HP software starts running again, along with the stupid progress bar stuck at 25%.
HP wants me to ship the computer back to them for a few weeks so they can fix it, but I thought I'd try here first to see if anyone has a clue as to what's wrong.
I bought an HP Pavillion s3123w (slimline) computer with Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. 9 months later, the hard drive is clicking and when it clicked, it froze the computer for several minutes. All indications point to bad hard drive.
Called HP and they sent me a new hard drive and recovery disk set to use on the new hard drive (wouldn't just send a Windows Vista disk and one wasn't included with the computer).
Anyways, swap out the old hard drive for the new one and proceed to recover/install windows onto the new hard drive. Disk 1 went just fine and disk 2 ran for 20 hours before I finally called HP back. They cannot tell me what's wrong with the install, however, I'm able to get onto the internet and register here and type this as we speak, so potantially, it's an HP software problem and not a Windows problem (my guess, anyways)...
There is a progress bar stuck on the desktop apparently trying to install some nvidia driver. It was and still is at 26%. I've rebooted and the HP software starts running again, along with the stupid progress bar stuck at 25%.
HP wants me to ship the computer back to them for a few weeks so they can fix it, but I thought I'd try here first to see if anyone has a clue as to what's wrong.
