I have an HP Pavilion DV6000, and recently I have been experiencing a whole lot of issues. I will list them off, and give a brief description on each.

-CPU Spikes to 100%, and then drops back down to lower numbers in the 1-30% range
-No desktop background: I have a solid black screen as a background, with my task bar and icons only. What's wrong with that?
-It constantly freezes up on me
-Runs slow, I don't know what that is all about
-My Recovery Drive (D) has 2GB free of 11GB, and I have no clue if that is normal or not
-I have no vista recovery disks, and I would like to have my hard drive re formatted so that I have a fresh computer to start over with
-Pretty sure there are more problems, but these are some of my major problems.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!



Thanks,


Tanner B.

Thanks for responding to me Rich!

I would just like to get my computer working right again. So I just want to fix what I have.

It is an HP Pavilion dv6000, about 3 years old. Yeah, it's old, but I still need it so that I can hand it off to my mom when I get my custom gaming pc in a couple of months.

Before I do anything, my computer keeps shutting down randomly, no warning, nothing. I can't be on it for longer than 15-30 minutes, and it shuts down, no questions asked. So before I were to do any of that, I need to know what's causing that. Also, one of my quick-touch buttons at the top won't turn on/work. It's the volume control. The volume doesn't light up, and the others don't work at all. They just light up.

When the laptop is off, the quick touch lights, the wifi indicator light, and the SD card slot light stay on. The power is off, but nothing shuts off.

What else do you need to know so that you can help me diagnose what the problem is?

Question: what would it cost to have my computer sent in to HP, be looked at thoroughly, and have the hard drive reformatted? I'm just curious to know what the problem could be.

Thanks!