I’ve had a problem with wireless resuming from suspend but it has never really worried me because I can restart a few services and all is well again.
Except today.
I ran the script twice and there was no sign of life from the wifi light. So I rebooted.
My laptop decided it was not going to pick up the hard disk. It didn’t consider it to be present. Like it had packed it's things and left for the day.
Gar.
So my first goal was to work out if the disk is ok. I plug it into my external IDE/SATA enclosure (and for all who want to know, SATA in a laptop is the same as SATA in a desktop) and check the disk. At first I thought there was a problem, but I had forgot to plug the other end of the USB connection in. Disk is fine.
Since I have two similar laptop models (A Dell M1710 causing me problems and Dell Inspiron 9400 running fine currently), I thought I would take the HDD out of the 64bit model and try it in the 32bit model. It detected the harddisk but wouldn’t boot (stating that you can’t run a 64bit os on a 32bit machine). Cool
Tried the other way around, take the disk out of the 32bit machine (which had already been done thanks to previous test) and place it in 64bit machine. Turn it on and it still doesn’t like the disk.
I have tried some cardboard “modifications” to see if I could lift the disk slightly up or down to see if it was just a connector problem, but I haven’t had much luck there. I’m not prepared to put too much in there in case it gets stuck.
Tried compressed air down the HDD bay to see if I could dislodge possible dust but that hasn’t improved the situation.
I haven’t taken the whole computer apart, but I have started hoping I could see something wrong.
The red circle is where the HDD connects to the board.
I was hoping to upload some high resolutions shots of these just incase someone picked up something I didn’t. I’ll try to upload them later when my brother isn’t playing CS:S.
Basically I’m looking for ideas. No hitting it with a hammer jokes please
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