I have had an Alienware laptop for about 3.5 yrs and it seems to be dying. It shuts down periodically or it flashes a blank white screen upon startup and goes no further (it doesn’t even show the BIOS boot screen). I have reinstalled Windows XP from CD in the past without problems, but now it will not reinstall at all. If the system boots properly, it has trouble copying some installation files or cannot install some files after they have been copied. I have been unable to complete an installation.
Does anyone have an idea of what’s happening? I fear that the motherboard is failing. For your info, the system is an Alienware Area-51M 766 with a 3.0GHz P4 desktop processor, 2GB of Corsair RAM (PC3200), 120GB Western Digital 5400RPM Hard drive.
