i have an R60...type 9459-CTO and i have been trying to reinstall windows 7 on it.

i bought it second hand (w/Win 7 on it) and it worked fine until one day the system started hanging and making noise, so i thought the HD was going out so i bought a new HD and every time i try to load Win7 on it hangs (at a different spot every time) during the collection of info (before the actual installation of Windows)..it doesnt matter if it is win7..i have tried linux as well and it does the same thing

anyone have any suggestions, comments, etc....

thanks in advance

I'd test the RAM first with mem86, it's a part of most Linux installation disks, and then take it from there...

Check in the BIOS under Config/Serial ATA if the controller is set to AHCI or Compatibility.
Try the other setting of what it is now.

ok...memory test passed...

i made that change (set on compatibility and changed to ACHI) and still the same thing hung up at the ACCEPT TERMS AND CONDITIONS page

now i get a blue screen of death waiting on the OS disk to load up with the following

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps.

check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

Technical information:

***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78A6524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Run the hard disk test utility from BIOS.

How's your battery?

I've known the odd machine to show that behaviour (admittedly during XP setup rather than Windows 7) because they were overheating. I don't suppose you can get to the fan with a small paint brush and clean the blades?

ok...i will run HD test

battery does not hold a charge...have to keep laptop plugged in

ill see if i can get to and clean the fan..i think i have a small enough brush

and some compressed air

Take the battery out and do everything just running on AC.

Any better?

HD test passed

took battery out and plugged it into AC..and booted to Win 7 cd and same message w/

blue screen came up as earlier

did a second time and windows disk is starting up

i know from experience that I shouldnt talk to soon, but it is Installing the OS

done with copying windows file and now is expanding windows files

keeping my fingers crossed

got win7 loaded finally after a couple of hangups during installation...and restarted and it took all the way through.....

only thing i did different was take the battery out and run the hd diag test and after that worked better and finally loaded except for the two hangups during install...

hmmmmmmmm.....??????????????????????????

Taking the battery out was the key IMO.

A bad battery is known to freeze a R6x/T6x/X6x/Z6x dead quite often...

i have been scouring the web....since i got OS loaded and just a fe wwminutes ago i finally cliked on the update window to go ahead and restart computer for updates to take effect and now it is a black screen with these white fonts racing up and down the screen

recovering orphaned file...blah...blah...into directory file such and such

going by too quick..cant read....computer hasnt restarted...unless it did before it went to the above real quick

oh ok..it was running CHKDSK........

ok..everything seems to be working fine....

thanks for the help folks..i really appreciate it