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I have Medion p4101D desk top pc with windows 7 .My PC started going slow occasionally some time ago, what would happen when I clicked the mouse for something to happen the screen would freeze and I would usually have to exit the screen by logging off. This sort of problem then started to happen more frequently until now the PC is unuseable. I cannot get F11 to take PC back to factory condition . I've started in F8 safe mode but this will not work.. Have used start up and repair: result failed error code=0 X 490. Left my PC on then went back later and it had on screen: American Megatrends then a few lines and at end it said : Port0 Device error F1 to resume

Any comments would be appreciated.

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Hi and welcome to ExTS

 

Thank you for the link to the other forum where you have been receiving help. This saves going over old ground.

 

I would be inclined to take the hard drive out and connect it to another system.

This will allow us to run some diagnostics on the drive and make sure that it is OK.

You may also be able to get some of your data off it.

 

You can do this with a hard drive to usb adapter similar to this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SATA-Transfer-Adapter-Power-Drives/dp/B004ND4632/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320140466&sr=8-2

You should then be able to access the drive as you would a memory stick.

 

The drive will be 3.5 inch SATA ( smaller in laptops )

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i have all my data off the hard drive, what I want to be sure that the HD is definitely faulty are there any other tests I can do with my u/s PC.

Thank you for your reply.

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I want to be sure that the HD is definitely faulty

If you connect it to another system as described, we can run Checkdisk on it.

CheckDisk can often fix problems with the drive as well.

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So if I get the usb adapter as you suggest I would either using CHKDSK resolve my PC unuseable problem or it would directly identify that the Hard disc is faulty and needs replacing ?

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