Great. Now you can boot with the Live CD you just created. Browse around for a few hours or so to see if you encounter any problems like the laptop stopping as before. If not, then the issue points to something probably system (software) related and not hardware related.
Trial #1 of LiveCD ended in a frozen state in 36 minutes.
Trial # 2 just started....
omni
Yes, I changed the order in BIOS...and heard the CD spinning along with a small green indicator light on the CD cartridge.Just as a sanity check...you are sure that laptop is booting from the CD (by setting to boot order in the Bios?)
Just to make sure, the live CD boots directly either into Firefox or Google Chrome (depending on which one you choose at boot up) as your only choices. And then after using Firefox/Chrome for 35 minutes it freezes?.Yes, I changed the order in BIOS...and heard the CD spinning along with a small green indicator light on the CD cartridge.
Trial #2 ended in a freeze at 36 minutes.
Yes, I changed the order in BIOS...and heard the CD spinning along with a small green indicator light on the CD cartridge.
Trial #2 ended in a freeze at 36 minutes.
Get a ram memory checking program. It seems like the same problem I had when I had a bad bank of ram. Swapped out the ram with two new sticks and was all set. That may be a little more difficult in a laptop. The memory software booted to DOS so no OS issues.
www.memtest86.com
Omni,Yes, I changed the order in BIOS...and heard the CD spinning along with a small green indicator light on the CD cartridge.
Trial #2 ended in a freeze at 36 minutes.
Agree about testing the RAM.
Could also set RAM test from Win 10.
Thx. Just ran the Windows RAM test as per the video. Zero issues identified.
Will run the Memtest86 next.
omni
Something is wrong here.
A few years ago I somehow fried the motherboard on a very expensive i7 Dell laptop that I had. In that particular case, it was so thoroughly fried that you could smell it across the room. Whew, what a stink. I bought a new laptop. I go through laptops pretty fast but in my case, I don't care because I get a big kick out of setting up a new laptop and exploring what it can do. So, I have a pretty low threshold before tossing a laptop and buying a new one. I think Omni550 has a higher threshold for that, and wants to do all the troubleshooting she can before she gets to that point.If that still doesn't fix it .. I'd blame the motherboard, which in turn for me would mean buy a new laptop.
Ok..burned a Memtest86 iso CD..and it cofirmed all was OK.
Booted up system with CD...felt/heard CD spinning for a few seconds and saw green light on CD carrier tray flicker.
Now, the display is uniformly dark blue, the power button on laptop is lit, and I can't tell if anything is going on.
Display never showed usual startup screen, sign in screen, etc.
Q: how do I know Memtest86 test is underway or did something go amiss on bootup?
I root for Omni550.
Don't forget that she was an engineer. And although a ME and not an EE, she successfully revived a large LCD TV that someone discarded.
Omni550 is my heroine.
If engineers threw in the towel so easily, we would not have the technologies we do now.
PS. I never did have this problem launching Memtest86. By the way, it can be run from Windoz, if I remember correctly.