Laptop Freezing all the time

ToLearn · 5 Aug 2006 at 15:50

HI all be very greatfull of any help you can give i have a toshiba a60 laptop

which keeps freezing on start up even shut down at times and sometimes while in windows but mostley on start up its had a new battery and ive also ran memtest all fine and of course been reformated im at a loss as im not so good with laptops

any good free software around to test other things

thank you for any help

TheVoice · 5 Aug 2006 at 17:20

Have you tried formatting/reinstalling Windows? May well be the easiest solution.

If that doesn't work, I'd suspect a hardware problem, which is going to be a fair bit harder to diagnose.

noxidjkram@hotm · 5 Aug 2006 at 20:57

Have you had a look in the 'event viewer' to see if there are any events associated with the freezes - might give you somewhere to start diagnosing.

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ANDARIAL · 5 Aug 2006 at 21:42

possibly the hsf not working or hs clogged with dust?can you get at it easily?or blow it clean with one of them airdusters?

ToLearn · 6 Aug 2006 at 02:06

checked and cleaned reformated and still playing up can see this going through the window lol

Gusev · 6 Aug 2006 at 22:37

Try loading it into the BIOS and leaving it there to see if it freezes. If it doesnt freeze there then you might be looking at a Windows issue. Another option is to try Knoppix and see if that freezes while you are using it. To get the knoppix download though you would need another machine that is connected to the net and CD Burner or DVD Burner.