I am having problems with a Compaq presario CQ61 421SA which is over 3 years old and hardly used. It has become unresponsive and would hang constantly on the desktop page. Then it would only start in Safe mode and eventually it would not do even that. I have recovered from the recovery partition 3 times now and got things going again only to relapse to the same problems. I have performed all sorts of checks from sfc/scannow,scandisk,hard boot,clean boot and even BIOS update. Nothing shown or improving. Diagnostics before boot up checks have shown both codes 303 and 305 and the log has several entries in this respect. The computer is presently running OK but a full diagnostic still produces a 305 error even though I have recovered from the recovery partition and updated everything. I fear it will start misbehaving again shortly. On my latest recovery I tried setting the BIOS to boot from the internal DVD and then put in the first of the 3 recovery discs I created when I first purchased it. It did not seem to want to read the disc or start installing from it so I reverted to the recovery partition. I am reluctant to throw good money after bad until I can be sure that a new hard drive is needed.
All suggestions/help would be gratefully received.
