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    What are the possible culprits to these symptoms?

    Well, I just now swapped out the HD in the laptop with an HD from a working laptop I have and it is doing the same problems... I have windows XP/Ubuntu on this new HD and the same problem is occuring. So not only is it NOT a software problem, but its not an hard drive problem either... Thank...
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    What are the possible culprits to these symptoms?

    Hello, I've got a friend's HP Pavilion DV4 laptop he needs fixing, and I am looking for some help on figuring out what the possible problems could be that are leading to these problems. When I start the computer, it goes to a blank screen randomly. Rarely does it ever make it to the desktop...