Laptop pc hangs

[LordGarfield]

I have a compaq presario 700. with 112 mb ram wich is weired.

After a certain period of time I can't do anything. My screen freezes and everything is stucked. Ctrl alt del does not work anymore. I only can reset my laptop. and start over.

what can I do about it without formating my HD?

wich steps should I take?

 

[wmccall]

You don't mention which operating system it is using, but my first step, since you seem to indicate that it fails after a specific amount of time would be to boot it up in safe mode and see if the problem remains. This should help decide if it is a hardware or software problem.

 

[LordGarfield]

Well I use WinXP pro

 

[FunkDoobious]

Do you have all patches installed from both the windows update and relevant drivers from the manufacturers web site

 

[norty303]

The reason why you have 112mb of ram is because the integrated graphics uses 16mb of the memory (112+16=128mb)
You may be able to change this value in the bios.