laptop won't run properly.

absoluteznoobz

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Jul 14, 2015
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4,510
Today afternoon my laptop suddenly descended into madness. It started popping BSODs. Initially it said that the problem was related to a driver file. After fixing that a bad_pool_header bsod popped up and later it simply showed that something went wrong and hence windows shut down. Before this the desktop windows manager too stopped working.

When I tried booting it later, it will turn on and off a few times before loading bios and the grub screen. And when It lasts long enough to boot windows or ubuntu, it will suddenly turn off unceremoniously.
Any help?
 
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Hi,
Please give us information about your laptop brand and type.
My first thoughts are overheating, RAM and HDD. Maybe it is time to a good dusting?

noshift

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Jul 14, 2015
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4,520


Hi,
Please give us information about your laptop brand and type.
My first thoughts are overheating, RAM and HDD. Maybe it is time to a good dusting?
 
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absoluteznoobz

Estimable
Jul 14, 2015
2
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4,510


Turns out you were right. Ram needed to be replaced.