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I know what you're thinking, yeah, HP sucks balls, but this laptop has been good to me for 2 years, until it didn't suspend right last night, and now the bois settings are corrupt, so it doesn't boot past the non-blinking underscore.

I've tried all the obvious solutions online, and it's still not doing anything. I even took it apart and removed the CMOS battery, then plugged it back in and reassembled; no results.

So I got on the Wii and decided to ask if anybody here on Retro could provide any insight. Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is something I have been hugely unsure about all week, and it's honestly scaring me since this laptop is the only PC I have with me right now. I actually went as far as taking nearly the entire laptop apart and cleaning out the fan to be sure that wasn't the source of noise. Figured since so many of you guys at Retro are more intimate with hardware than I am, I'd get a second opinion.

Pretty much, I've been booted into mostly Ubuntu for a good year, and everything seemed in the clear power management wise, despite the hard drive being a little warmer; I thought it was a negligible issue until recently. I'm starting to wonder if that extra dash of heat has slowly had an effect on this the lifetime of the main motor. (All clicking noises are normal, so those are good.) The motor gets blatantly loud and vibrates the case when the whole machine's hot from working on art.

However, I booted back into Windows where the hard drive isn't stressed as much, (I think it gets parked more frequently when idle.) and hasn't made as much noise; in fact, it's nearly silent a lot of the time, I have to put my ear up to the touch pad to hear it. Although sometimes it warms up a bit and an obviously less dangerous level of noise returns. This is the noise I'm getting right now, recorded straight from the mic, and it calmed down in a matter of minutes. It probably sounds like it's vibrating a part of the case, but isn't as loud as it probably sounds on the recording, since it is from the mic mounted beside the webcam.

Link to sound because Audio Player doesn't work for me.

So, tl;dr, do I need to tighten the cradle later tonight, or is it simply getting older? I've had this laptop for a couple of years now as of this month, some wear is to be expected. To be on the safe side, I don't plan on booting into Ubuntu again until I get an external hard drive to install it to. I'd rather do that than stick to WUBI like I am now anyway, the tiny amount of fake swap space is so pathetic I might as well be running without a swap partition.

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