One of my old laptops had a similar issue. It had a bottom section that contained the floppy and CD drive. It ended up to be a bad memory module.
On 02/15/2011 10:33 AM, Jack Coats wrote: > I have seen such things be thermal related. > > Even though it is a laptop, open it up or have a tech do it and clean > it out. Dust, lint, etc build up and can cause thermal overload. It > is very dusty were we live, and I have this as an issue in desktops > here. > > My son had a laptop at college and found that it had a lot of lint in > it. I am guessing because he used it on a bed. > > The next thing I would check is memory. Run a long running memory > test. Memory sticks do go bad, but not often. -- Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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