Okay. So I have a Gateway (*shudder*) M305 laptop that I bought in July 2003. Sometime in the last month, my system started to shut down out of nowhere, and I have to disconnect the battery and AC, then reconnect both in order to power back on. There don’t seem to be any particular apps that cause this. I’m 94% sure it’s not a virus or trojan, and the fan has been loud and obnoxious ever since I first started using this computer, and it doesn’t seem to be running any hotter than normal, so I’m not sure if the problem is overheating. If it is overheating I don’t know what to do about that. Any suggestions? Anything I can do??
I’m using Windows XP Pro, Celeron processor, I’ve never installed SP2, I’ve tried to defragment and that did nothing. And I can’t run DiskCleanup – it starts and then freezes, so that could be a sign of some grief.
