Laptop Freezing Up With REDline across the top of the screen

[xcandow]

Thank you in advance for your help on this topic. I have an HP 7000ZD laptop. Recently my laptop froze on me and had a RED line across the top of the screen. My computer felt hot so I thought it was overheating. I took a home fan and had it blasting air into the fans of the computer and it seem to work fine. However if I took the home Fan off the computer the laptop would freeze on me and with a RED line across the top of the screen. I took the laptop into an authorized HP Repair shop and the said I needed a new fan assembly on the laptop. I put the new fan in and the same problem still happen. But if I placed the home fan onto the computer it worked fine. So next HP told me I needed to replace my processor. I received the processor today and yet again same problem laptop would freeze on me and with a RED line across the top of the screen. I have reinstalled windows; I have ran the disk repair. And still the same problem. Can my Hard Disk being going bad? It seems like the last thing I haven’t replaced. Why can I have a Home fan blowing on the laptop and it works and if I don’t have a fan blowing into the laptop it freezes? Thank you again for anyone’s help on this. It’s mind blowing to me.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

It is most likely your Laptop is overheating. Has this problem always happened or is it recent?

I would try to get the money back for the new processor as it didn't fix your problem.

[xcandow]

It started a week ago. The fans where dirty before I replaced them a week ago. Can it be the hard drive overheating making the computer freeze? Thank you

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

It wouldn't necessarily be the Hard Drive. The computer should have an automatic shutdown sequence that will forcefully shut down the computer when overheating.

I suggest downloading Speed Fan and tell us what the temperatures are.

[xcandow]

Win9x:NO  64Bit:NO  GiveIO:YES  SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked Intel 82801EB ICH5 SMBUS at $1100
Found nVidia NVIDIA GeForce 5600 FX Go
Linked nVidiaI2C0 SMBUS at $3D403E3F
Linked nVidiaI2C1 SMBUS at $3D403637
Linked nVidiaI2C2 SMBUS at $3D405051
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
SuperIO Chip=PC8739x
Scanning Intel SMBus at $1100...
SMART Enabled for drive 0
Found HITACHI_DK23FB-60 (60.0GB)
Found ACPI temperature (32.0C)
End of detection




Thank you for helping me!

[xcandow]

As soon as I got done posting that my computer shut off with a blue screen. I didn't have the home fan blowing on it so the speed fan would get the correct readings. As soon as I put the Home fan back on it it works fine again its crazy.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Actually I meant these results:

[xcandow]

When I had my home fan on the laptop it read like this
HDO: (With a down Arrow) 34C
Temp 1: (With a down Arrow) 30C

When I turned off the home fan it read like this
HDO: (With a check mark) 35C
Temp 1: (With a down Arrow) 30C

3 Minutes after I had turned off the home fan it read like this
HDO: (With a check mark) 36C
Temp 1: (With a down Arrow) 33C

And Then it shut down and rebooted

Thanks

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

36*C is pretty low for the computer to respond to the heat but it seems that way...

Can you try a System Restore to a date before this problem?

[xcandow]

I did restore the computer before an earlier date. That did not work So I reformatted the computer from scratch and that did not work...

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Hmmm....do you think it's possible there is a problem with the monitor, not the computer itself?

If you have another monitor laying around, try plugging it in the VGA port and see if the computer freezes.

[xcandow]

I can try that at work tomorrow if I boot up with another monitor will my laptop screen be on at the same time? If this works with another monitor can my laptop monitor be fixed? Thank you

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

If it's a simple Driver problem, you just have to reinstall the drivers.
If it's a problem with the monitor itself.....