Event 7001 in the Event Viewer

I just want to remind the nature of the problem.

The computer (an HP pavilion dv8 running windows7 64bit) freezes at random and has to be hard reset.

Freezing has been observed

-While inside the Bios menu

-While scrolling up/down the options (Safe mode,Safe mode w networking, safe mode w command prompt, start windows normally) at the Windows Error Recovery screen

-At the windows logon screen

-At the windows desktop

-While booting from windows repair CD.

OR NOT AT ALL.

Computer freezes even while executing HP diagnostics by pressing F2 after power up.

Select Start, Run, type cmd and press ENTER. Type "chkdsk c: /f /r" without the quotes and hit ENTER. Make sure you include the spaces indicated. Enter Y when asked whether you wish to run chkdsk on restarting the computer. Exit and restart the computer.

Marking off bad sectors on a hard drive takes time so be patient. Marking off does not repair a bad sector. It places pointers on the drive telling the system not to read or write to those sectors which have been damaged.

If the number of bad sectors continues to increase after you have run the procedure above several times then you should replace the drive. If an important system file is written to a bad sector you can corrupt registry hives and lose the whole contents of the drive.

On the other hand if having run chkdsk you see no more new bad sectors then the drive can work for you for years.

Please provide a copy of a chkdsk report on your C partition select Start, All Programs, and Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator. Type chkdsk and press the ENTER key and a report, detailing amongst other things a summary of how the disk space is utilised, is provided. If you want a report on a partition or drive other than C you need to go to that partition. To access F, where F is the required partition you type F: and press the ENTER key.

Copying reports from a command prompt can be tricky. Right click and select Mark. This enables you to highlight selected text and click to copy. You then go to an open Word, Notepad or similar file, right click and paste. The selected text transfers from your clipboard to the open file. You can paste directly into a reply message to most forums.

In Windows 7 you may need to use an Elevated Command Prompt;

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/783-elevated-command-prompt.html

"chkdsk c: /f /r" was interupted at stage 3 of 5 while 12% complete because the computer froze dead. Up to that point 0 bad files found.

Hard rebooting...

The test was interrupted at stage 4 of 5 (12% complete) because computer froze dead..

Up to that point everything was clean.

I am planning to uscrew the back of the laptop and resit the memory modules...

You will try again? If it freezes just leave the computer to resolve the problem. Do not press the power on / off button.

For how long should i wait for the computer to resolve its problems?