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    I just purchased two laptops without hardrives An older gateway dual core 17" PA6 meant to run Vista, and a nice Dell 1545 In

    the diagnostic check was done with a DVD of Eurosofts MRI that I found laying around.. all memory test, in fact ALL tests passed fine. I'll shut it down now and try your suggestion take it apart, re thermal paste and clean.. re assemble and try again. I'll let you know how it goes.. Thanks
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    I just purchased two laptops without hardrives An older gateway dual core 17" PA6 meant to run Vista, and a nice Dell 1545 In

    Hey, thanks for your speedy reply... I had considered the heat and/or power issue, but discarded it since the laptop runs for 2 hours straight with diagnostic software running in it's own DOS environment.. I figured that during the CPU and Mem tests the heat and power are pushed well past the...
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    I just purchased two laptops without hardrives An older gateway dual core 17" PA6 meant to run Vista, and a nice Dell 1545 In

    Laptop (OS?) freezes up at different intervals after install.. Tried Both Vista and Windows 7