My emachine keeps freezing. I can be working on anything and all of sudden the hard drive light stays permantly on and I have to wait up to a minute for it to sort itself out.

The buzzing/grinding noise is probably a bad connection if you are using earphones. Put a couple of drops of rubbing alcohol on some toilet paper and clean the prong for your earphones. Wait a minute and reinsert the plug into the jack. As for the freezing up of the video, you might want to download and install your video drivers for your emachine. Go to the manufacturer's web page to find the right ones. Don't forget to reboot after installations.

When this happened was the laptop overly hot? If the laptop's head got too high it could have shutdown to protect itself. It wouldn't boot until the heat had disparate. Sit you laptop aside for about 30 minutes and see if it will boot then. If it does you might want to check out a cool mat.


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time to save everything to another save source and replace that hard drive
use a solid state hard drive as a replacement as there are no moving parts to wear out

Hello

Try f2,then let the screen come up.This is your bios settings,dont change anything.

Next hit the esc key,answer yes or y key.Pc should reboot normally.

If this doesnt work hit the f10 key and select your hdd or hard drive in the options,and reboot.

may be the game yu installed had a virus which affects normal start up

ok the dv series laptops are prone to motherboards failing it is a known issue. expect the typical repair to be between 275-330

Before doing anything start your PC and keep pressing F8 slowly. A screen will appear with options choose Last Known Good Configuration to see if it cures your problem.

There is a problem with EXTERNAL.Hdd is fine just buy new external and it will work fine again;)

Damage

You may have a hardware problem of some sort. The first place I'd start is to check the power supply voltages. If one or more voltages is off tolerance, this will cause all sorts of symptoms. if you have a voltmeter check especially the +5, +3.3, +12, & +5 standby voltages. Use this site as a reference http://pinouts.ru/Power/atx_v2_pinout.shtml If the supply checks out faulty, buy a replacement, or, if tech savvy, you might repair it-- probable component defects= one or more electrolytic capacitors. Other possible problems are Memory errors (try subbing a RAM stick), hard drive developing errors, or a bad chip on the motherboard. If you have some spare parts, RAM, hard disk, you can try subbing parts and narrow down the problem.