Looks like my computer's getting ready to take a dump on me.

So this past two weeks my Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop has been acting a bit funky.. I've found that the laptop boots up, but is super slow. It sometimes never boots up to the user screen, even after waiting 15 minutes, so I end up holding the power button, and turning it off... Other times, when I enter my password at the user screen, the welcome page appears, and stays like that forever, so again I have to manually shut down by holding the power button.. But now, most often what happens is the computer loads up fine, until all my programs and wallpaper are shown. When it shows my wallpaper , the computer takes over 15 minutes to load Mcafee and my Creative Audio Center...

I ended up doing an error check earlier and the error code 2000-0146 popped up. The code came up with this: DST Log contains previous error.

Here's a few screenshots of my Event Viewer:

As you can see, i've got some HUGE problem on my computer.... just waiting on that blue screen of death now.


Take a look at this, Health Status: Caution. Yup, this confirms my hard drive is on the verge of death. I'm publicly logging this as proof of a crappy hard drive from Dell in my 2 1/2 year old Dell Inspiron E1705.


I don't know what to do now. I've read up, and some people have said to replace the hard drive. If I were to replace a new internal hard drive, any recommendations? I'm probably planning on getting a 320GB internal hard drive. HD must be 2.5'' SATA. Hope some of you can chime in!

Some more pics from this past Sunday

This S550 was shipped from Norcal to Platinum VIP. Customer is a loyal repeat customer, but wow, it shows how loyal people are to us.Bumper was hit by something, and oil was splashed all over the hood.




Final Detailing before the cars are back in the possession of the customers.


Car just came in... yikes!



Finishing up the IS!




Fixing fixing!!

Here we go... Phototime!!!

Sorry, no time to add one by one... gotta get back to studying!!! More pics tomorrow night!

Sorry!

Sorry guys for the long absence, School's taken a big toll on me these past few weeks. I hate group projects because people never pull their work. Pisses me off, especially since I end up doing it, to try to get the good grade. Why must people make me suffer? Bastards.... Well we can put that behind, because I'M BACK!!!!!!!


Well anyways, lots has been going on at the shop since i've been gone. It's been PACKED with cars lately, and even a loyal returning customer in Sacramento has dropped his car off at Platinum VIP!!! Quite amazing I must say!!


Picture post to come soon!