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Check the hard disk indicator LED. When you access a file,
the LED lam p shou l d light up mom entari l y.
The new HDD may be defective or is not co m p atibl e.
If your comp uter has been subjected to static e l ectricity or
physi cal shoc k, you may have dam a ge d the disk drive.
The hard drive is making abnormal whining noises
You shou l d back up your files as soon as possi ble.
Make sure the source of noise is indeed from the hard drive
and not the fan or other devices.
The hard disk drive has reached its capacity
Archive fil es or pro g ra m s that you had no long er used by
moving them to an alter native stora ge medium (card reader ,
etc.) or uninst all pro gr a ms that are no lo n ger used.
Many browsers store fil es in the hard drive as a cache to
speed up the perfo rm ance. Check the pr ogram ’s O nl ine He l p
for instructions on decreasi ng the cache size or on re moving
te m porary Internet file s.
The hard disk takes longer to read a fi le
Interrupt requests or prob l e ms with other hardware devices
may have occupied the CPU and therefore s l ows down the
syst em perf orm ance.
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The display panel is blank when the system is turned on
Make sure the co m puter is not in the Standby or Hibernate
suspend m odes. The disp l ay is turned off to conserve energy
in these m odes.
The screen is difficult to read
The di splay reso l ution sho uld at least be set to at least
800x480 for o ptimal viewin g.
The screen fl ickers
It is normal if the disp la y fl ickers a few t ime s during shutt ing
down or powerin g up processes.
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