I am working on a Toshiba Satillite 1.6 gig Laptop that freezes up constantly. I was lucky to get the 30 gig HD formatted. Trying to install Millenium then upgrade to XP PRO. Made it to 55% installed then freeze up. Could this be a bad memory problem. Lucky to make it past the boot screen before freeze up. Thanks
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Yes it could be a MEM problem... sounds like that when the MEM gets to operating temperature that it clonks out... you can check this by having it sit within the BIOS and if it freezes there then you know...
another possibility is just plain too high a temperature within the Laptop...
suggestion you run MEMTEST86 or similiar programm... replace the RAM with a good known working one... get more air flowing within the laptop, if I am correct there are Fan units that clamp underneath the Laptop... could also be the fan unit within the laptop is busted and needs replacement...
Ben
another possibility is just plain too high a temperature within the Laptop...
suggestion you run MEMTEST86 or similiar programm... replace the RAM with a good known working one... get more air flowing within the laptop, if I am correct there are Fan units that clamp underneath the Laptop... could also be the fan unit within the laptop is busted and needs replacement...
Ben
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