[luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

[Mike Sonstegard]

Stan...you may very well have a bad CPU Fan....causing the CPU to 
overheat, and the system to crash. If you are not in the mood to open up 
the unit, I would suggest that you attempt the fsck progs and if they 
don't yield an answer, you would be well advised to take it to a 
reputable service provider for accurate diagnosis, and an estimate for 
repair.

Mike


Stan Baptista wrote:

>re: Clarify your situation and perhaps more knowledge
>will arise.
>
>I've got a Compaq Presario 2701T laptop purchased @1.5
>years ago from CompUSA.
>
>I'm running Windows XP Pro Edition and the OS
>installed with the system was XP Home Edtion.
>
>Symptoms:
>
>1) Whirring sound (like a fan) when running which
>wasn't the case when things were fine and beautiful. 
>The sound will sometimes kick into high gear and that
>is the system's signal that it is about to crash.
>
>2) Sometimes the system boots and sometimes it
>doesn't.  If it fails, I'll get the XP version of the
>blue screen of death.  (The sceen isn't blue but the
>text which indicates the crash address and other
>diagnostic info is.)
>
>3) If it manages to boot successfully, several system
>failure errors are generated.  Sometimes that's eough
>to halt the system, sometimes not.
>
>4) If I can proceed at all (which lately is not the
>case) then evetually the whirring noise gets loud
>enough and then BOOM.
>
>Hope that helps and actually the commentary on
>experience w/ various stores is helpful.
>
>If the disk really has crashed then I would, of
>course, love to recover as much as possible.  However,
>it's not absolutely mandatory and any recovery process
>costing significant $$s (say anything beyond $10) will
>probably get a pass from me.)
>
>Thanks,
>Stan
>
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