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okay thanks Wolfshadow.

Okay, thanks for info. Laptop is 5 years old and it probably could be considered under extreme conditions somewhat as I use a wood fire stove so it's pretty dusty and sometimes for months and months I have gamed 24/7 . Now mostly I do photo editing which is resource hog too.

My Laptop is 5 years old. At what age should I maybe upgrade to a current one? I normally do lots of photo editing with photoshop and Lightroom. My laptop is overheating so am considering a newer one. thanks

GOOD NEWS! The laptop I though had completely died actually started up today. I had tried several times yesterday and nothing. Now on 3rd day it is running normally although a bit hot still and I worry it will overheat again so am thinking I should take it apart and give it a good...

if my laptop overheated and died, what is it that is probably damaged? the motherboard?

ok thank you very much I will certainly do that, the laptop I hope only needs a HD ............ I do have a desk top with windows 10 that needs a mother board so I am out of luck in using my windows 8 that I purchased for the desk top when i replace MB??

Yes I have the sticker on bottom but I thought once the original oem OS was gone you were not allowed to reinstall it again unless you purchased a new one. I bought the laptop used a couple years ago.

Replaced hard drive....it had an OEM version of windows 7...so that is gone now and I have no operating system HP Pavillion DM4. Can I just use something like ubuntu? I have only ever used windows operating systems and have never even seen ubuntu in service. Make a bootable USB with ubuntu on...

if my laptop is hanging/freezing and a chkdsk scan shows a terrible amount of many many bad sectors I am pretty safe in assuming I need to replace the HHD?

I actually did do system restore just forgot to say it in my post....When I ticked show all there was only 6 available and none far enough back.

HP Pavilion dm4 core i5 ------I can only use it in safe mode with or without networking. If started normally it hangs and can't even be turned off except by holding button down. I am not sure what to do. I did msconfig and hid all microsoft services and hit disable the rest No change. I...