Newish C3500 Owner

wolviak · #1 (**permalink**) 03-21-2005, 06:53 PM

Hello all,
I’ve had my C3500 for about a month now. After the first week of use I started having problems and the unit is currently on its way back to Averatec

. I think the unit has a bad hard drive. It worked okay for about a week (kind of slow) then it started freezing up. I was able to run Check Disk (Scan Disk) on the hard drive and it found a lot of errors. It supposedly fixed all the errors and when I rebooted the unit was working. A couple days later the same thing started happening. I ran Check Disk again and it found a ton of errors again (many of them looked like repeats

). As before upon reboot the machine worked fine. This time it only worked for a day though. After it froze up I powered down and let it sit overnight. When I tried to reboot I kept getting the following error:
A disk error occurred
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart
I tried running the recovery disk but they didn’t help. In fact they didn’t even work (I don’t know if that’s the disk or a hardware problem). Anyway that’s my story. Hopefully in a couple weeks I’ll get the machine back from Averatec and everything will be all good :D .

upbeetmusic · #2 (**permalink**) 03-22-2005, 08:20 AM

i'm begining to think alot of the problems are temperature related, as when my c3500 gets too hot or too cold seems to be the only times i encounter problems, but i bought a cool pad as soon as i got mine so everything usually runs great, but it does get really hot other wise

wolviak · #3 (**permalink**) 03-23-2005, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upbeetmusic

i bought a cool pad as soon as i got mine so everything usually runs great

What brand & model of cool pad did you get? Does the tablet fan run as much while using the cool pad? Do you have problems when not running the cool pad or does the machine just get really hot?
Thanks

upbeetmusic · #4 (**permalink**) 03-23-2005, 09:19 PM

i just got a cheap one off of ebay, not even sure what the brand was, but the fans are pretty good, i havn't really noticed whether the averatec fan still comes on alot or not, but it keeps the notebook cool. like i said in the above post i do have problems when i leave it on for too long, it gets really hot at first but then i start having problems. and i've also had problem before, i left it in the car and it was really cold, when i brought it in i turned it on and i had problems with it because i guess it was so cold

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