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by minotaur3

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Alright - so my friend asked me to fix his laptop, the problem is -- windows boots up normally, and after 5-6 minutes it completely freezes and I have to restart by holding the power button..

So i reformatted his harddrive, and it still had the same problem

I put in a brand new harddrive and loaded windows xp sp3 on it, and it still has the same problem..

I was thinking it may be a heating problem
anyone? :O

thank you!

-Jared

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by yovev

I think the same.
Check the hardware monitoring in BIOS

by charvell

Check all the heat syncs on the machine, a lot of times dust and lint collect on them and cause issues.

by oh smeg

I would start off with getting a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD and making yourself a copy of this Disc and booting off it, then running some Diagnostics.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

This is free to download so make sure that you click on the actual Download link and not the add on the page. ;)

Test the CPU, RAM and HDD as a start and if nothing shows up with those work your way through the others tests. ;)

Col

by peconet tietokoneet

Try and update the memory to at least 2 to 4gb if at all possible. This will give you a smoother running system.

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